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This video explains how particles originating from deep inside the core of the sun creates northern lights, also called aurora borealis, on our planet.

See an extended multimedia version of this video at forskning.no (only in Norwegian):
forskning.no/artikler/2011/april/285324

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This video is produced by forskning.no in collaboration with the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo.

Production, animation and music: Per Byhring - soundcloud.com/perbyhring
Script: Arnfinn Christensen
Scientific advisors: Jøran Moen, Hanne Sigrun Byhring and Pål Brekke
Video of the northern lights: arcticlightphoto.no
Video of coronal mass ejection: NASA

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Per Byhring
Animation and music
Arnfinn Christensen
Script

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RJ Evans 7 months ago

Excellent!

kuriositas.com/2011/06/how-northern-lights-are-created.html

Thanks!
Per Byhring 7 months ago

Glad you liked it, and thanks for sharing it on your site! =)
uncleblacko 7 months ago

Beautifully done!
Per Byhring 7 months ago

Thanks! :D
carol-anne ryce-paul 7 months ago

Thank you Per Byhring, this was beautiful and instructive. I hope to see them for real very soon and will take this video with me
Per Byhring 7 months ago

Thank you! I hope to see them myself some time soon too... Oslo, where I live, is usually too far south to see the aurora properly.
Robersonfr 7 months ago

Awesome! =)
Per Byhring 7 months ago

Cheers! =)
Brian Moore 7 months ago

excellent work! Man you could make a little money by selling this amazing video to schools or you can give it to them for free and spread good karma.
Per Byhring 7 months ago

Thanks! Better to share it for free I think =)
Brian Moore 7 months ago

i think you are right :)
Mathieu Veriter 7 months ago

Very instructive !! thanks for sharing this knowledge with us !! :)
pixEllen 7 months ago

Veldig fint! Knallbra gjennomføring og veldig informativt. :)
Ali Bahaloo 7 months ago

Excellent Demonstration ...
Nate Maggio 7 months ago

Very very very well done!
Mikael I. 7 months ago

Thanks for that :) Nice video.
Rumena Zlatkova 7 months ago

Incredibly good visualisation. Informative, educational and even entertaining :-) I thought I knew how auroras happen, but not in such precise detail. Thank you for sharing this with us!

The only part that puzzled me: how come Mercury, Venus and the Earth were on the same line? ;-)
Rumena Zlatkova 7 months ago

Also, very good music / soundscape. What did you use for the sound?
Per Byhring 7 months ago

I'm happy you enjoyed the video. The planet alignment is a bit unusual, i agree. We discussed this a little when I was working on the scene, but agreed that it was okay to do it this way as it illustrates both the great distances between planets, and how the solar storm reacts differently with mercury and venus' weak magnetic fields compared to earths stronger magnetic field.

I composed the music in Cubase =)
Oscar Ramos 7 months ago

Thank you for doing this amazing video. Incredibly well done.
jbravo_m 7 months ago

excelente
d4vecarter 7 months ago

This video is awesome. Educational and well docummented. Congratulations for the great job Per!
Mike Watson 7 months ago

Very informative and well animated. I especially loved the music. Is this music commercially available?
Per Byhring 7 months ago

I made the music especially for this video, so the songs only exist in the short versions you hear in the video. I haven't made them available anywhere else, but if you want I could upload the soundtrack without commentary for you
Mike Watson 7 months ago

That'd be excellent, thanks!
Homeless Balloon 7 months ago

Very instructive, beautifully made and a joy to watch.
Mushhood Zaheer 7 months ago

Great video. And great animation.
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dave pearl 6 months ago

great video, so much to learn about, thank you very much
Justincorrigible 5 months ago

awe-inspiring. You do the planet justice in this.
Nick-K 5 months ago

Great video! Thanks! :)
Homer Samson 4 months ago

I want to know more about how the visualization of the night side aurora was created.
Ksenia 2 months ago

This is one splendid video! Seen the northern lights a lot growing up but never knew how they really worked. Thank you!
Michael Coughlan 2 weeks ago

Thanks Per. Love the music too!