In Burgenland: – Northern lights: A colorful gift from the sun

But how? Does climate change have something to do with it? Captain laughs and waves him off. “No. For once it wasn’t homemade,” he smiles. “The sun is responsible for this – or rather, the solar winds.” Because these storms “paint” the pink, red, green or violet lights in the night sky. The colorful shimmers are beautiful and arise because the magnetic field that surrounds the Earth diverts the electrically charged electrons and protons that the solar storm brings to Earth from space to the poles.

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