It has been an extremely long term, some of us count this term as a 23-week term since term one we have been non-stop, we did get a break but we were obviously stuck inside most of the time. For the last day of the term, we were given the task of creating and learning about the southern stars also known as the Aroua. An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, usually of greenish colour but sometimes red, pink, purple & blue. This natural phenomenon usually occurs in areas known as the 'auroral zone' near the poles of the Arctic in the north and Antarctic in the south. In Southern hemisphere latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora australis. Aurora is caused by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within our atmosphere. Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which get pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields. As they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights. So here my Southern lights art work.
