06:02 
Fri, 4th July 2008
Send Us Your Pictures of the Northern Lights
The Northern Lights — more elegantly famous as aurora borealis, or daybreak twine — ordered Federal skies aflame at the reaching of outflow and modify of summer.
Caused by the impinging of live particles carried to Earth on solar
winds, these shimmering heavenly curtains hit been attributed to the glinting armor
of Valkyries, the domicile diversion of Algonquin alcohol and — in
Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass trilogy — a fleshly maker of wisdom.
In a inferior mythological vein, they’re also enthusiastic recreation to photograph. With
the prototypal Northern Lights flavour nearly over, I’d same to call upon
Wired Science readers to send me your possess pictures. If you hit a few
spare transactions to note downbound what the Lights hit meant to you, add that
too. When sufficiency come I’ll place them in a gallery, a la your pictures
of the terminal lunar eclipse.
Image: Taken by me from the prow of a transport somewhere soured the shore of Labrador in 2004.
See Also:
- Northern Lights’ Source Found in Giant "Magnetic Ropes"
- Total Eclipse of the Moon: Your Photos
- Happy Earth Day: Beautiful Pictures of Our Planet
WiSci 2.0: Brandon Keim’s Twitter and Del.icio.us feeds; Wired Science on Facebook.
Melted From: Wired Science
Tags: aurora borealis, coast of labrador, coming of spring, earth day, eclipse of the moon, facebook, fireside, golden compass, happy earth day, jot down, lunar eclipse, northern skies, philip pullman, pictures of the northern lights, prow, science readers, solar winds, spare minutes, total eclipse of the moon, twitter
