Today we've been making art on the Southern Lights/Aurora Australis.
The Southern and Northern lights also known as Aurora Australis and Aurora Borealis were named after the Roman Goddess Aurora.
The Lights are made by the Sun superheating the gasses around it, this starts tiny pieces of the sun to blast away at 750 kilometers a second. Once the stream of particles called the solar wind hit the earth's magnetic field some of the particles get deflected by the earth's atmosphere but some make it through.
While they are in the atmosphere it excites oxygen and nitrogen atoms which causes them to light up to cause the Aurora Lights.
Auroras are also visible from space as big colourful rings around either the north or south poles.
Auroras have also been seen on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. They also occur on the north and south poles just like on Earth.
For art we ripped a piece of paper to look like mountains, then we taped it onto the black paper and got chalk pastels, with the pastels you put the colour only on the white paper then smear it up to create the effect of the Aurora.
Since we are also learning Matariki I added the constellations with a yellow-tinted white.
Do you like it?
Next time I would change the colours so it would look more realistic.
Have you seen the Aurora lights?
That's all Bye!
