Feb 20
The internet can be a tough place to distinguish fact from fiction. Who has time to fact-check all those beautiful, weird, and sometimes horrifying pictures? Well, we do.
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Feb 13
The origin of the television set was heavily shrouded in both spiritualism and the occult, writes author Stefan Andriopoulos in his new book Ghostly Apparitions. In fact, as its very name implies, the television was first conceived as a technical device for seeing at a distance: like the telephone (speaking at a distance) and telescope (viewing at a distance), the television was intended as an almost magical box through which we could watch distant events unfold, a kind of technological crystal ball.
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Jan 09
Millions of charged particles are rushing toward earth after a gigantic solar flare on Tuesday. Bad news for NASA’s latest mission, but good news for sky-watchers: Those charged particles also collide with the earth’s atmosphere to produce the ethereal-looking northern lights.
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Aug 22
If this image makes you think of the Northern Lights, you shouldn’t be surprised. Because this is in fact a planeterrella: a large glass dome containing spheres and charged particles, which mimics the auroral glows present within our solar system.
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Jul 10
Aurora Borealis Sound Recorded
Posted in: Today's ChiliOne the coolest natural phenomenon that happens around Earth are the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis. We’ve seen this phenomenon photographed from space by astronauts on the ISS in the past and the glowing greenish hue is very cool to look at. Researchers have announced that they have now recorded the sound made by the Northern Lights proving the surreal sound is not just an old wives tale.
The researchers say that there have been legends and folk tales about the sounds associated with Aurora Borealis, but those had been dismissed as imagination or illusion. Researchers in Finland set up microphones at an Aurora observation site and have been able to record the sound made by the Northern Lights, which they describe as a “clapping.” The sound only happens occasionally.
The researchers installed three separate microphones and determined that the location of the sound source was about 230 feet above the ground. Apparently, when the sounds are produced the Aurora showed a typical pattern according to the geomagnetic measurements. Check out the video above to hear the sound of the Northern Lights for yourself.
[via Universe Today]
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