The document describes the aurora borealis and australis, or northern and southern lights. It explains that the lights are caused by solar particles interacting with Earth's magnetic field, which allows some particles to enter through openings at the north and south magnetic poles. Typically, the lights can be seen in high northern and southern latitudes, such as Alaska, Iceland, and New Zealand, and are best viewed around the equinoxes in March and September. The document expresses a desire to travel to these locations to observe the beautiful colors of the aurora lights in the sky.

1. THE LIGHTS
OF THE
AURORA
Irene Oviedo Corral

2. I'd like to see the lights of the aurora. They are
strange colour lights moving across the sky
coming and going, like clouds in a strong wind.
The aurora comes because of storms 150 million
kilometres away, in the sun. It's made by
something called “solar wind”, we cannot see it
or touch it. This is a wind of particles that
travel away from the sun all the time at about
400 kilometres a second.

3. When that particles come near the Earth, a wall called
“earth's magnetic field” pushes them away on either side.
But earth's magnetic field has two “windows” in it: the
magnetic north and the magnetic south.

4. At these places, the earth's magnetic field
turns down into the Earth, and some of the
particles from the solar wind come through
these magnetic “windows”. These solar
particles crash into the particles that are
already in our sky, and when this happens,
we can see the beautiful lines or clouds of
light of the aurora.

5. Usually you can see it only at the
very north of the Earth, where is
called “the aurora borealis” or
“Northern Lights”; or at the very
south, where is called the “aurora
australis” or “Southern Lights”.

6. Aurora australis
Aurora borealis

7. Alaska, Iceland, Siberia, the north
of Greenland, Norway, Sweden
and Scotland are good places to see
the aurora borealis.
Aurora borealis in Alaska.

8. To see the aurora australis you can go to the
south of Australia, Tasmania or New Zeland.
Aurora australis in New

9. The best times to see the lights of the aurora
are around the equinoxes, in March and
September.
I'd love to go to some of this places to see the
very beautiful colours of that lights in the
sky, I think it would be amazing and very
relaxing.
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