Does neon occur freely in nature?

Question

I need pictures of neon occuring freely in nature! Are the northern lights made up of neon?

Answer 1

Freely in nature -- neon is way less than 1% of the atmosphere, colorless. A picture of a clear blue sky is as close as you can get. Aurora borealis is made up of ions, but few of them are neon.

Answer 2

The so called Noble Gases react very little with anything, so instead of man having to break them out of compounds, man has had to first discover they existed then try to force them into compounds, so all of them exist, in small quantities, in the atmosphere. They were all left off the first Periodic Chart of the Elements because no one suspected them. Helium was discovered in the spectra of the sun, then on earth. The others are Neon, Argon, krypton, xenon, radon, and ununoctium. Most of the heavy ones are created by break down of radioactive elements.
http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/data/intro_groupviii_data.html
This will tell you about neon in the atmosphere being lit up aurora style
http://www.livescience.com/technology/050202_light_show.html

Answer 3

the northern lights have something to do with the sun but neon is one of the elements and the way it produces light is if you put in in a vacuum sealed tube and run an electrical current through it. there are also other gasses that produce different color light when a current is run through them .take a chemistry course and you will learn more about this.