There has been much debate about who discovered the auroras, but ancient Chinese and Greek people have been studying these natural wonders for years, and the ancient Eskimos and Scandinavians have been known to reference them as early as 700 AD. The person that actually brought everyone's attention to the auroras was Benjamin Franklin, even though a French astronomer Pierre Gassedni was credited for given the name of the aurora borealis (the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas) in 1612.
Aurora Borealis is the name of a number of separate characters in computer games, because of the feminine sound of the term. But it is simply the scientific name for the "Northern Lights", the lights in the sky around the magnetic North Pole.
It gets its name from Aurora, who was the Roman goddess of dawn, and Boreas, which was the Latin word for the North wind.
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Aurora Borealis is caused by particles hitting earth's atmosphere thermosphere and they are stopped, so they give of their energy in the "Northern Lights" or Aurora Borealis.
The northern lights, or aurora borealis, is fascinating. happy?
Both aurora appear around the polar regions. The Aurora Australis appears around Antacrtica and the Aurora Borealis appears around the Arctic.
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yes, it is called the aurora australius.
"The Northern Lights" is Aurora Borealis's commonly used name.
The Aurora Borealis
No. In fact the aurora borealis and the aurora australis are very beautiful sights.
''Aurora'' means Dawn and ''Borealis'' means North. So basically Aurora borealis means ''Dawn of north''.
The aurora borealis is more commonly called the northern lights.
Aurora Borealis - album - was created on 2004-06-22.
When the Aurora Borealis happen, they can be seen from the Aleutian Islands.
"The Northern Lights" is Aurora Borealis's commonly used name.
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Aurora Borealis is caused by particles hitting earth's atmosphere thermosphere and they are stopped, so they give of their energy in the "Northern Lights" or Aurora Borealis.
Aurora Borealis occurs in northern parts of the world. Aurora Australis in southern parts of the world. Borealis is more known because there are more places and people to see them.
Aurora boreal, or even more technical, you can also say it as in Latin "Aurora borealis"[au̯.ˈɾo.ɾa.βo.ɾeˈa.lis]