Watch: NASA Shares Stunning View Of Northern Lights Seen From International Space Station

New Delhi: NASA shared a stunning video that shows the green hues of the northern lights from the International Space Station (ISS).

Nasa started the caption with a line from the song Yellow by Coldplay. “Look how they shine for you,” they wrote. In the rest of the caption, the space agency explained more about what causes this beautiful natural phenomenon. “Auroras are natural light shows caused by magnetic storms triggered by the Sun’s activity like explosive flares and coronal mass ejections (ejected gas bubbles). Solar winds carry the energetically charged particles from these events to Earth’s atmosphere,” they added.

“When these particles seep through Earth’s magnetosphere, a part of our atmosphere that protects us from solar and cosmic radiation, they cause substorms. These fast-moving substorm particles slam into our thin, high atmosphere, colliding with Earth’s oxygen and nitrogen particles. As these air particles shed the energy they picked up from the collision, each atom starts to glow in a different colour—causing the brilliant ribbons of light which weave across Earth’s northern or southern polar regions,” they further explained.

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