At night, you can admire the aurora borealis over Ukraine
Kyiv • UNN
On the night of August 13, 2024, the aurora borealis was seen over Dnipro and other regions of Ukraine. This rare optical phenomenon occurs in the upper atmosphere under the influence of charged particles.
The northern lights, or the aurora borealis, as it is also called, are observed over the Dnipro River. This is reported by Suspilne correspondents, UNN reports.
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The sky above the city looked like this around midnight on the night of August 13, 2024.
The aurora borealis, also commonly known as the northern lights, is a rapidly changing optical phenomenon of glowing parts of the night sky in the polar regions. It occurs in the upper layers of the planet's atmosphere under the influence of streams of charged particles that the planet's magnetic field directs to the poles.
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