Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
Click to viewAlso known as the northern lights. Many ethnics such as Inuits ("Eskimo" is considered pejorative to Canadian Inuits) worship the northern lights as their deceased ancestors dancing with their Goddesses. Also, aurorae are also considered sacred to ancient Rome, and Aurora was the name of the Roman Goddess of dawn. Aurora borealis, specifically, can be seen in the sky of northern hemisphere (mostly in the far north or near the northern magnetic pole: Alaska, Quebec, Yukon, Greenland, Russia). Aurora australis, on the other hand, is visible only far south, i.e., Antartica, South America (Ushuaia, Punta Arenas probably), and New Zealand. For the cause of auroral phenomena, please refer to Aurora (astronomy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For a list of sources for the photographs that went into making this slideshow, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJewrz0Mp9M.