One of the things that human beings are most fascinated and passionate about is, without a doubt, the subject of space and the universe, since its infinity means that we still have many things to know and also, it allows us to be amazed with some phenomena that sometimes he usually gives us.
An example of this is the publication recently made by the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet , who in his Twitter account uploaded a couple of photographs he took during an orbital mission carried out on the International Space Station (ISS), where a pair of aurora borealis are seen in the shape of a ring radiant green with some fragments of light that are emitted by the curvature of planet Earth.
“We We encountered the strongest auroras in the entire mission, over North America and Canada. Incredible peaks higher than our orbit and we fly just above the center of the ring, fast waves and pulses everywhere ”, wrote the astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) in the social network.
What are the Northern Lights?
According to information from NASA, the Northern Lights arise in the atmosphere Earth when magnetized plasma particles from the Sun collide with the Earth’s magnetic field . Subsequently, the atoms obtain an extra energy which is released as light.
” When we see the brightness of the aurora, we are observing a billion individual collisions that illuminate the lines of the Earth’s magnetic field ”, explains the US space agency.
In recent weeks there has been a large solar storm that caused some power outages and telecommunications, but also has produced a series of northern lights that have been seen in different parts of the planet, such as the one seen by the astronaut Pesquet.
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