@Zzylith 27 February 2021 more from that month

Aurora Borealis or Aurora Australis, the northern or southern lights Those who live at or visit high latitudes might at times experience colored lights shimmering across the night sky. Our sun is 93 million miles away. But its effects extend far beyond its visible surface. Great storms on the sun send gusts of charged solar particles hurtling across space. If Earth is in the path of the particle stream, our planet’s magnetic field and atmosphere react. When the charged particles from the sun strike atoms and molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, they excite those atoms, causing them to light up.