It was a new northern lights party
It was another night with northern lights in several places in the country, even in the far south. For the second day in a row, social media was flooded with pictures of the green veils.
Facts: Northern lights
There are both northern lights and southern lights – also called Aurora borealis and Aurora australis respectively. It is a light phenomenon that is most common in the Earth’s polar regions.
The glow is formed by particle radiation from the sun which upon contact with the earth’s atmosphere initiates electromagnetic radiation (light).
Auroras are often yellow-green in color. They can also be red or turn red-violet. We can only see the northern lights with the naked eye at night. In daylight, special instruments are required to see the phenomenon.
“Congratulations Sweden! What a move!” wrote Calle Bergstrand, who runs the Facebook group Norrsken Sverige, on Monday evening. Yesterday’s northern lights were visible from Kiruna in the north to Malmö in the south. Images of a huge green-red aurora borealis have once again flowed on social media. The reports started to appear as early as 19:00 and around midnight there was another explosion.
The fact that it is possible to see the northern lights with the naked eye in southern Sweden is among the rare, while in Kiruna it is possible to see it almost every night. In the Stockholm region, it happens once a month.
The northern lights have their basis in a solar storm and in an ejection of plasma, which in turn caused a global geomagnetic disturbance on Earth.
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