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Explanation of the physics involved i the northern lights(aurora borealis) why can't it occur in mire southerns latitudes?

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The northern lights come from the interaction of electrically charged particles given off by the Sun surface during solar storms and the Earth's magnetic field which is pointed in the northern to southern poles of the Earth. Therefore, the charged particles that travel through millions of miles from the Sun to the Earth accelerate towards the magnetic poles and appear as the northern (and southern) lights

Boreal is an adjective word for the north or northern regions. In the southern latitudes, in the southern hemisphere, the phenomenon is called aurora australis (australis is the adjective for 'of the south')

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