If you follow the link in this post at Common Sense and Wonder I promise you will not be disappointed.

If you appreciate Astronomy..don’t miss it.

~J~ adds: I uploaded this photo of Aurora over Alaska because it didn’t have a copyright on it, and wanted you to get a sense of what’s in store if you visit the site.

Aurora Over Alaska

Credit: Joshua Strang, USAF, Wikipedia

Explanation: Higher than the highest mountain, higher than the highest airplane, lies the realm of the aurora. Aurora rarely reach below 60 kilometers, and can range up to 1000 kilometers. Aurora light results from solar shockwave causing energetic electrons and protons to striking molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere. Frequently, when viewed from space, a complete aurora will appear as a circle around one of the Earth’s magnetic poles. The above digitally enhanced photograph was taken in 2005 January shows a spectacular aurora borealis above the frozen landscape of Bear Lake, Alaska, USA. The above image was voted Wikipedia Commons Picture of the Year for 2006.

From Tonto’s Comment:

An Eskimo Legend

Northern Lights - are believed to be the torches held in the hands of Spirits seeking the souls of those who have just died, to lead them over the abyss terminating the edge of the world. A narrow pathway leads across it to the land of brightness and plenty, where disease and pain are no more, and where food of all kinds is already in abundance. To this place none but the dead and the Raven can go. When the Spirits wish to communicate with the people of the Earth, they make a whistling noise, and the Earth people answer only in a whispering tone.

The Eskimo say that they are able to call the Aurora and converse with it. They send messages to the dead through these Spirits.