These images highlight some of the profoundly beautiful, yet ephemeral artworks created by lightning displays. Lightning, of course, is simply a discharge of electricity. Yet it is startling and stunning to behold.
Even the most incredible fireworks shows cannot compare to nature’s own light shows.
Watch this if you want to see how Powerfull a lightning is :eek:
The famous “northern lights” are a beloved phenomenon that can startle the first time viewer with their haunting hues reminiscent of an impressionist painting or surreal watercolor.
YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS!!!!! :eek:
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They are created with electrically charged particles (like electrons), directed by the earth’s magnetic fields, crash into gas atoms. The result is the aurora flash.
Aurora Borealis
There are actually both northern and southern polar lights. Aurora, Latin for “light”, are most commonly seen in the northern hemisphere (”borealis” for northern, as in the Boreal Forest) but are also displayed in the southern hemisphere (”astralis“…think Australia).
The aurora borealis displays are colorful and dynamic, but the aurora astralis are remarkable in their own right, seeming to light up the frigid southern polar expanse with their intense vibrance. Watch the slideshow below for more incredible images of nature’s “paintbrush” on the skies.
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NOTE: there is music in it
Meteors
Meteor showers (also known as meteor storms or outbursts) are bits of debris from space that enter the earth’s atmosphere at extreme speeds. Hitting the air causes them to vaporize, which leaves the famous spark of light behind - hence the nickname “shooting star”.
The Ids Above Us
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No, it’s not your boss’s selfish demands bellowing from the office upstairs. The “ids” refer to meteor showers that can be seen each month of the year. Meteors are quite frequent, and usually very small, but some meteor showers are recurrent and well-known for their brilliant shower of blazing artistry.
Perseids
The Perseids, in the images and video above, and the Geminids below are most famous, but, for example, the Orionids are coming up on October 21-22.
Geminids
The Geminid meteor shower happened last fall-winter 2007, but its peak was December 13-14. Driving a few hours up into the Sierra Nevadas, away from the light pollution and in the sharp cold, and you’ll see a spectacular art show.
Fireballs
A fireball is an especially bright meteor, typically so bright it is confused for a planet. The Leonid fireball is one of the most famous in the world.
Fire
Forest fires that spring up in nature due to weather conditions can wreak phenomenal havoc; but they can also cleanse the land and at times, create beautiful vistas and memorable images.
Bitterroot Fire Deer
This Bitterroot Fire nearly engulfed two deer. The image was thought to be Photoshopped but evidence later revealed that it was in fact real.
Wildfires
These stunning portraits show fires from Canada to Alaska to Africa, both during the day and in the stark contrast of night. Though wildfires can be frightening and destructive, they can also be beneficial, clearing the land for new growth by eliminating underbrush and dead trees. Native Americans learned by watching nature’s self-sustaining wisdom; they would strategically manage forests by periodically burning certain portions.
Firewhirls
Firewhirls are simply fire tornados. They’re often spawned by wild fires, though they can be caused by other elemental conditions. The look is both eerie and alive - as if made of molten glass.
Sun
Solar Flares
Some solar flares have been large enough to easily wipe out Earth with their heat; we’ve luckily been missed and instead can take in the fiery beauty of the sun’s flares as cosmic art. Others are powerful enough to make the sun itself quake. Funny enough, scientists declared the sun in a rather dormant cycle of minimum activity, but the sun became incredibly active in March of this year with a spate of new eruptions, flares and other bursts.
Sun Dogs
A sun dog, or parhelion, is an exceedingly bright spot on a solar halo. According to wikipedia a sundog “is an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Often, two sun dogs can be seen (one on each side of the sun) simultaneously.” Pretty cool to observe.
Smoke
No art about nature’s fiery art would be complete without a few glimpses at the at times opaque, delicate, complex and swirling beauty of fire’s dissipation: smoke.
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