"Look up, Lower 48."
He looked where she pointed and lost his breath. "Holy God."
"Yeah, I always thought it was holy. A natural phenom caused by latitude, sunspots and so on.
Scientific explanations don't make it less beautiful, or magical."
The lights in the sky were green with shimmers of gold, hints of red. The long, eerie streaks seemed
to pulse and breathe, bathing the dark with life.
"I've heard of them. Seen pictures. It's not like the pictures."
"The best things never are."
The otherworldly green continued to shift, glow, expand, shimmer. It was raining liquid jewels of color.
Northern Lights
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Northern Lights Oddity: Strange Sounds of Auroras Explained
The northern lights of Earth are more than just dazzling light shows — they also generate their own strange applause too, a new study reveals.
The same energetic particles that create the dancing, dazzling northern lights
high up in Earth's atmosphere also produce strange "clapping" noises
just 230 feet (70 meters) from the ground, researchers said.
The results vindicate folktales and reports by wilderness travelers,
which have long described sounds associated with the northern lights
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