Space weather refers to condtions on the Sun and in the solar wind, Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based logical systems and can endanger human life of health.
Auroras are beautiful light shows visible from those living in Earth's higher latitudes. The light shows arise from a mixing of trapped solar charged particles, the Earth's magnetic field, and the Earth's atmosphere. Charged particles in space from the Sun become pulled into Earth's magnetic field and are trapped. Once they are trapped, the particles spiral towards the Earth's magnetic poles, where the particles hit the gases in the Earth's atmosphere. These collisions give off energy that we see as colored light.
