How is an aurora fromed?

Answer 1

solar wind hits the earth's magnetoshpere.

Answer 2

It is formed when the solar winds are acted on by the Magnetic field. The beta particle is attracted to the north pole,making the pole negative. The alpha particle is attracted to the south pole. This makes the south pole positive charged.
As the sun is very active and the particles come in u see the aurora.

Answer 3

After a particularly violent eruption on the sun's surface, high-energy, charged particles are blasted into space at high velocities. If the eruption was facing Earth, these particles collide with Earth's magnetic field and the resultant energy release is seen as what we call an aurora.

Answer 4

Northern lights originate from our sun. During large explosions and flares, huge quantities of solar particles are thrown out of the sun and into deep space. These plasma clouds travel through space with speeds varying from 300 to 1000 kilometers per second.

But even with such speeds (over a million kilometer per hour), it takes these plasma clouds two to three days to reach our planet. When they are closing in on Earth, they are captured by Earth's magnetic field (the magnetosphere) and guided towards Earth's two magnetic poles; the geomagnetic south pole and the geomagnetic north pole.

Answer 5

Charged ions in the Ionosphere, I think.

Answer 6

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