I’m not a writer and I have no ambition to be one. There was a time I played around with writing fan fiction. That urge kind of passed. At least for now. Occasionally I do play around with characters I’ve created and their stories and their worlds. I see it more as creative exercise for my mind than anything else. Besides it’s just fun.
Recently I was doing some research for an idea I had related to using auroras in a story. I don’t live where they appear and basically know very little about them. So lots of research involved. But I love browsing stuff about weather phenomenon. Are they considered weather? Hmmm, good question.
Anyway, I ran across this article that just fascinated me. Enjoy the beauty.
“Aurorae are like fingerprints in the sky,” says study coauthor Minna Palmroth, a space physicist at the University of Helsinki. Broadly speaking, auroras — often called northern lights or southern lights — appear when electrons from the magnetic bubble, or magnetosphere, surrounding Earth rain into the atmosphere and set oxygen and nitrogen gas aglow (SN: 7/25/14). But the particulars of those particle interactions give each type of aurora its unique flare.Here are 5 of the weirdest auroras, including the newly spotted ‘dunes’