🌌 Aurora Colors Explained 🌌 Ever wondered why auroras display such vibrant colors? The northern and southern lights are caused by solar particles interacting with gases in the Earth's atmosphere at certain altitudes: 🔴 Red: Oxygen above 300 km 🟢 Green: Oxygen at 100-300 km 🔵🟣 Blue/Purple: Nitrogen below 100 km The most common aurora color is green 🟢 There are even yellow 🟡 and pink 🩷 aurora colors that come from mixing red auroras with green or blue auroras! More solar activity = more v
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🌌 Aurora Colors Explained 🌌 Ever wondered why auroras display such vibrant colors? The northern and southern lights are caused by solar particles interacting with gases in the Earth's atmosphere at certain altitudes: 🔴 Red: Oxygen above 300 km 🟢 Green: Oxygen at 100-300 km 🔵🟣 Blue/Purple: Nitrogen below 100 km The most common aurora color is green 🟢 There are even yellow 🟡 and pink 🩷 aurora colors that come from mixing red auroras with green or blue auroras! More solar activity = more v
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Aurora Colors Explained 🌌 Ever wondered why auroras display such vibrant colors? The northern and southern lights are caused by solar particles interacting with gases in the Earth's atmosphere at certain altitudes: 🔴 Red: Oxygen above 300 km 🟢 Green: Oxygen at 100-300 km 🔵🟣 Blue/Purple: Nitrogen below 100 km The most common aurora color is green 🟢 There are even yellow 🟡 and pink 🩷 aurora colors that come from mixing red auroras with green or blue auroras! More solar activity = more vivi
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Aurora Colors Explained 🌌 Ever wondered why auroras display such vibrant colors? The northern and southern lights are caused by solar particles interacting with gases in the Earth's atmosphere at certain altitudes: 🔴 Red: Oxygen above 300 km 🟢 Green: Oxygen at 100-300 km 🔵🟣 Blue/Purple: Nitrogen below 100 km The most common aurora color is green 🟢 There are even yellow 🟡 and pink 🩷 aurora colors that come from mixing red auroras with green or blue auroras! More solar activity = more vivi
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Northern Lights colors, explained simply. Aurora color depends on two things: What gas the sun hits. How high it happens above Earth. Green is the most common. It happens when solar energy hits oxygen lower in the atmosphere, roughly 60–120 miles high. There is more air at this level, which is why green aurora shows up so often. Purple usually means movement. It forms when solar energy hits nitrogen and often appears along the edges of green aurora or during fast, active nights. Red is rare. Red
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Northern Lights colors, explained simply. Aurora color depends on two things: What gas the sun hits. How high it happens above Earth. Green is the most common. It happens when solar energy hits oxygen lower in the atmosphere, roughly 60–120 miles high. There is more air at this level, which is why green aurora shows up so often. Purple usually means movement. It forms when solar energy hits nitrogen and often appears along the edges of green aurora or during fast, active nights. Red is rare. Red
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The aurora borealis is usually green in color, although it can also appear to be a range of other colors, including red, blue, pink and purple. The color of the aurora is determined by the altitude in which it appears. Different atmosphere compounds (such as Nitrogen and Oxygen) are found at different altitudes. When charged particles from the Sun enter our atmosphere, they interact with those compounds, and the aurora is the visible result. Depending on which compounds are being excited by the
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