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Auroras: Fire in the Sky by Dan Bortolotti (Hardcover, 2011)

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KEYNOTE: A celebration of nature's spectacular light shows, and a visual feast documenting the kaleidoscopic colours that decorate the sky. For millennia, humans have been fascinated with the ghostly green and red curtains of light that shimmer across the heavens on dark, clear nights. Ancient peoples saw these displays as souls of the dead, the torches of the spirits and as harbingers of war. Barely 100 years ago, scientists finally learned that an aurora is created when the Earth's magnetic field is bombarded with charged particles from the sun. When the charged particles collide with oxygen in the atmosphere, auroras with yellows, greens and reds appear. Collisions with nitrogen result in bluish colours. However, our understanding of the physics behind auroras has not detracted from their wonder. Auroras is filled with 80 photographs of one of nature's greatest spectacles, complete with captions that reflect on the folklore, science and beauty of the northern lights. The book poses and answers the many scientific questions about auroras: . Why are auroras usually seen only at high latitudes? . How do scientists study them? . What causes the different colours? . Why are massive auroras often followed by blackouts and computer system crashes? Auroras is where cutting-edge science meets the stuff of dreams. AUTHOR: Dan Bortolotti is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in many magazines, including Equinox,/i>, Canadian Geographic andOWL. He is the author of Exploring Saturn. Photographer and videographer Yuichi Takasaka emigrated from Japan more than 20 years ago in order to photograph wildlife in Canada's many national and provincial parks and World Heritage Sites. ILLUSTRATIONS: 80 + colour images *

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Firefly Books Ltd
ISBN-13
9781554076819
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108656978

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Author
Dan Bortolotti
Publication Name
Auroras: Fire in the Sky
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Astronomy
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
144 Pages

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255mm
Item Width
255mm

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Dan Bortolotti
Illustrator
Yuich Takasaka
Topic
Astronomy
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada

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