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Hi, I'm William Jeffries with more science news you can use.

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Bet you've never seen anything like this up in the sky.

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Okay, I give up. What is it?

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It's the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, nature's TV show.

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They're mostly seen in the northern and southern extremes of the Earth, someplace like Alaska.

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The solar wind brings charged particles from the sun,

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which strike gases in the Earth's atmosphere, causing the gases to glow in different colors.

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I've never seen anything like that.

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Well, in a way you have.

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The color TV screen you're looking at right now glows in bright colors

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when a charged particle touches the chemicals inside.

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So the Northern Lights are kind of like nature's TV show in the sky.

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Until next time, I'm William Jeffries with more science news you can use.

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