Particules of light in the night

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/auroramax/default.asp

Science is beautiful...
and since yesterday night, watchers of the sky can open their internet window to gaze to the magic of the northern lights, and observe their slow dancing

The Canadian Space Agency on Monday launched an online observatory streaming the aurora borealis live over the Internet.

"Armchair skywatchers everywhere can now discover the wonder of the northern lights live on their home computer screen," Canadian Space Agency president Steve MacLean said in a statement to AFP."We hope that watching the dance of the northern lights will make you curious about the science of the sky and the relationship we have with our own star, the sun."

On their site you can see Auroras live, like a web cam on the sky, you can inform yourself thanks to a discovery chapter. Learn that "Auroras occur, when charged particles from the Sun collide with gases in Earth's upper atmosphere, resulting in a ribbon of lights dancing across the night sky." You can explore the sky, see images. And this for all sort of ages.

"Science is beautiful", as they say. In the warmth of ones bed, at a kitchen table with ones laptop, among residues of breakfast, to feel like under some northern sky, in winter, watching particules of light dancing ... Magic.

Magic exists.
In the sky. Even if nowhere else on this planet full of technology, turning everything to dust, at least, in the sky, dust becomes particules of light. Dancing.