@historyinmemes Northern lights recorded directly from underneath. The aurora borealis - otherwise known as the northern lights - is a vivid demonstration of the Earth's magnetic field interacting with charged particles from the sun.
Each second, 1.5 million tons of solar material, traveling at 100 miles per second, shoot off the sun. Earth's magnetic field deflects most of it, but not all. The solar wind, a stream of charged particles, flows at 447 km/s (1 million mph), and while the magnetic field protects us, some particles still cause auroras and geomagnetic storms.