"The northern lights have seen queer sights / but the queerest they ever did see / Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge / I cremated Sam McGee." So the American poet Robert Service began his classic "The Cremation of Sam McGee," one of many...

The Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australialis are electromagnetic phenomena that occur near Earth's polar regions. The Aurora Borealis—also known as the "northern lights" (boreal derives from Latin for...

Auroras (Polar Lights; or aurorae, sing.: aurora) are natural different colored light displays, which are usually observed in the night sky, particularly in the polar zone. Some scientists therefore call them "polar auroras" (or "aurorae polaris"). In...

ASTRONOMY Birch, Robin Earth 32 pp. Chelsea Clubhouse LF, ISBN 0-7910-7925-2 $14.95 Birch, Robin Jupiter 32 pp. Chelsea Clubhouse LE ISBN 0-7910-7926-0 $14.95 Birch, Robin Mars 32 pp. Chelsea Clubhouse LE ISBN 0-7910-7927-9 $14.95 Birch, Robin The...

The Bible is the most influential collection of books in western civilization and purports to provide answers to some of the basic questions of life. The association between the Bible and astronomy has been quite complicated and frequently turbulent. There are perhaps misguided attempts...

For Japanese newlyweds Jun and Chisako Shibata, the perfect honeymoon meant standing on a steep Alaska mountain in the freezing darkness, gazing up at the dancing lights in the sky."Amazing," Chisako Shibata said of the aurora borealis, or northern lights."I saw it on television a...

For Japanese newlyweds Jun and Chisako Shibata, the perfect honeymoon meant standing on a steep Alaska mountain in the freezing darkness, gazing up at the dancing lights in the sky."Amazing," Chisako Shibata said of the aurora borealis, or northern lights."I saw it on television a...