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Aurora from "the magic of the sauna"

Added	Mon, 18/03/2019
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Sun, 17/03/2019
Версии	The Aurora (Northern lights)

For millennia, the Arctic traveller admired auroras and wondered where they come from?

"After 20 years of filming in Lapland I may have finally found the answer, says Peter Rosen of the Swedish city of Kiruna. They seem to come from my sauna! Here's proof, received on 14 March."

According to ancient legends of Norway, the sky illuminated in the result of mirror effect from the shoals of herring in the ocean, in Finland, with the appearance of the Aurora said that it is a Fox waving its tail, and in Sweden they were associated with spirits games.

A scientific explanation is a bit more complicated. Auroras are the result of interaction of the solar wind with the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere.

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