Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: Godthe second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

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Thursday
Dec132007

Bundles of Energy

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Scientist have possibly confirmed what they’d previously suspected about the energy source for the Aurora Borealis (aka the Northern Lights). All they need is one more geomagnetic storm and they’ll know for sure.

New data from NASA’s Themis mission, a quintet of satellites launched this winter, found the energy comes from a stream of charged particles from the sun flowing like a current through twisted bundles of magnetic fields connecting Earth’s upper atmosphere to the sun.

The energy is then abruptly released in the form of a shimmering display of lights, said principal investigator Vassilis Angelopoulos of the University of California at Los Angeles. (Source from CNN.com)

Like a 5.5 magnitude earthquake travelling four hundred miles a minute, those Aurora producing geomagnetic storms.

“Nature,” says Angelopoulous, “has been very kind to us.”  Because, you know, we don’t deserve such a shimmering display of beauty and power, but nature loved us anyway and sent us northern lights. For the beauty of the earth, nature, we thank thee.

Okay, then.

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