Channel: Canadian Space Agency

Category: Science & Technology

Tags: northern lightsauroramax observatorythe colours of the northern lights

Description: 2022-02-18 – In this video, discover the northern lights: what they are, how they form, their colours and how to view them. ✨The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are a spectacular, colourful display of light commonly seen in the night sky in the northern hemisphere. Auroras in the southern hemisphere are known as the southern lights, or aurora australis. ✨Both the northern lights and the southern lights are polar lights, or aurora polaris, because they occur near Earth's magnetic poles. #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #auroraboreale Version française : youtu.be/6Q_t5j1Yjwo Canadian Space Agency, NASA, Neil Zeller ----------------------------------------------------------------- 👉 Northern lights: asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/northern-lights/default.asp 👉 What’s new: asc-csa.gc.ca/whats-new 👉 Blogs: asc-csa.gc.ca/blog 👉 Website: asc-csa.gc.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------- [00:00] Intro [00:17] What are the northern lights? [00:33] How do they form? [00:57] The colours [01:15] Where can you see the northern lights? [01:37] Watch the northern lights live [01:43] Credits