Mother Nature astonishes me all the time. While dd|a’s designers make me look like I don’t know one end of a pencil from the other, it is reassuring to know that Mother Nature can trump everyone on occasion. Apparently, huge discharges of magnetic energy create an electrical frenzy in the planet’s ionosphere, resulting in the dazzling Northern Lights. A group of scientists at Astronomy North have captured these using time-lapse videos. Watch the one with this post and see more at their Web site here. They are mesmerizing.

Tags: astronomy north, aurora borealis, northern lights

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