Why the Northern Lights could get more intense | BBC Global

Before satellite technology brought us answers, the Northern Lights were a mysterious and unexplained phenomena, long woven into the legends of Arctic communities.

Occurring in the polar regions, this colourful light show is caused by particles from the Sun hitting the Earth's atmosphere.

Scientists predict that this year or next, the solar cycle will peak and a period of more intense and complex Northern Lights will follow.



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[DC-wtvi]

Three cheers for Earth's protective magnetic field! 🥳 🎉 👏 👏

[CoolDudeClem]

I'd love to see it for myself with my own eyes. Every time auroras are forecast in the UK I look out of the windows at night to see if I can spot it but I never do. It doesn't help with the street lights, some of which never go out. I've only ever seen it once, I'll never forget it. One time Dad and I were at one of his friends places, and I kept seeing green flashes of light in the sky and I didn't know what it was. Apparently that was the aurora every now and then lighting up the sky.

[efdangotu]

Suspicious0bservers!!!
Magnetic pole shift is underway. Shields are at 70% strength, captain!

[LisaMarieFord]

Folks, this video was focused on briefly talking about solar maximum and the upcoming journey back into it. As an amateur astronomer and professional astrophotographer as they’ve said we’ve been here before, about every 11 years. They likely have other videos talking about this. This is just a short video about a specific topic while The Northern Lights are a popular topic right now.

They didn’t focus on the Earth’s magnetic field was because that wasn’t the focus of the video. It was just a brief touch on the topic of auroras. Yes, people are talking about it; just do a simple Google or YouTube search if you want more info.

The poles are always slightly shifting. The sun’s poles flip too. Look it up if you want to know. No need to freak out.

And denying we humans have no impact on our environment (i.e. climate change) is like never cleaning up your house nor taking a bath and not disposing of any garbage and so forth and claiming it’s not your fault it stinks, rodents have taken up residence, some mold is toxic, you have to crawl over filth, and ya smell. 🙄

Obviously, unless one has NO understanding of nature, we do have an impact on our world. Beavers change their entire environment by building a dam in a waterway; to put it very, very simply. We humans imitate that and so much more. Building a highway will change the way the wind travels and weather for that area. Building a manmade lake can actually create lake effect snow in winter among other things. Putting up a building and cutting down trees will change wind, weather, wildlife movements, and so forth. Sheesh, I’ll never understand deniers and gripers complaining about cleaning up after themselves and folks wanting clean water, fresh clean air, planting trees, and doing whatever we can to make the world a better place. Yes, we live and should love life and part of that is building things and travel, but seriously cleaning up after ourselves actually benefits us too.

[upsguppy]

we will be seeing these more and more and more our magnetosphere is weakening we are having a pole flip

[sromrell]

Surprised the BBC didn’t blame it on farming

[sandybritton]

As beautiful as they are. Our planet is in extreme danger. When will main media start being honest?

[crazyscott]

How come no one is talking about our magnosphere weakening? The poles are moving and causing the magnosphere to weaken. That is why we see the Aroras in such low attitudes! Suspicious Observers on YouTube!

[Diamonddavej]

"The abysses, when beneath a luminous crown the heavenly fire is wanting, forming as it were the circular entrance to a cavern; the turns, when a great rounded flame in the form of a barrel is seen to move from place to place, or to burn immovable; the gulfs, when the heaven seems to open and to vomit flames . . . sometimes these fires are high enough to shine among the stars; at others, so low that they might be taken for the reflection of a distant burning homestead or city." - Seneca, the Younger (4BC - 65AD).

[katstorm]

I usually go watch them by myself without a camera so I don't see the bright colors. My friend was with this time, and we did get to see all the colors, including the rare blue! I also discovered my phone takes much better pictures than I thought so I got pictures as well.

[luannpatterson]

Our magnetic field is on a slippery slope of decline. Put that with being in solar maximum it’s taking less energy to cause them. They’re magnificent to see to be sure.

[MAM]

Surprised they did not try to blame climate change like they do with everything else

[feeberizer]

I live in southern New Mexico and missed out on the auroras we had this weekend. Fortunately, local people posted pictures they took. Deep rose and purple covering the whole sky. I'm certain we'll have more of these southern events this year and next.

[CJZ]

@BBC Global, can you add subtitles please?

[ivayloivggrigorov]

Nothing about the weakening magnetic field that is actually causing the aurora penetration. Thanks bbc for the malinformation.

[sgtellioman]

LSD and this phenomena are a match made in heaven

[areareare]

I've only seen them once when I was visiting family in Northern Quebec. They do make a sound - I always compared it to the sound of the old Wrigley gum foil wrappers.

[donkress]

You focus on these aurorae as being "a thing of beauty". No mention of Kristian Birkeland? The Norwegian scientist that made the discovery of the sun being the origin of the aurora... These are electric phenomena.
You made no mention of the earth's magnetic field weakening at an accelerating rate? and that the current aurorae are much more vivid and intense than the same intensity CMEs would have produced decades ago. Even with constant CME intensity in the near future, aurorae will be more intense as our magnetic field reduces even further.
A Carrington Event today would be a termination level event for civilization as we know it.

[cokvanessen]

What a lot of BS, not a word about the declining magnetic field what is causing this. BBC at it's best...🤣

[rosamrc]

I love the mixture of modernity and tradition from the lady herder!!