The most famous castle of Bavaria is without doubt Schloss Neuschwanstein. Neuschwanstein is also known as the Disney Castle as this is the castle that inspired Walt Disney for his fairytale castle in Sleeping Beauty. The castle was built in the 19th century by King Ludwig II of Bavaria as his private refuge. Wartburg Castle, a Medieval Castle Red aurora occurs from 200 km to as high as 500 km altitude and is caused by the emission of 6300 Angstrom wavelength light from oxygen atoms. Green aurora occurs from about 100 km to 250 km altitude and is caused by the emission of 5577 Angstrom wavelength light from oxygen atoms. The light is emitted when the atoms return to their original Named for the Roman goddess of dawn, the aurora is a captivating display of light in the night sky. The aurora borealis and aurora australis — also called the northern lights and southern lights — occur at the northern and southern poles. Image Credit: NASA. This image, taken from aboard the International Space Station, shows the aurora adshelp[at]cfa.harvard.edu The ADS is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under NASA Cooperative Agreement NNX16AC86A Take a tour of Bavaria with Dave and Deb of The Planet D. Germany's Bavarian Alps are beautiful and we travel from Munich to the Alps, through Nuremberg and ISS029-E-008433 (17 Sept. 2011) — This is one of a series of night time images photographed by one of the Expedition 29 crew members from the International Space Station. It features Aurora Australis, seen from a point over the southeast Tasman Sea near southern New Zealand. With space shuttle Discovery's tail is in the foreground, the aurora australis, or southern lights, blaze over Earth's horizon in this photo from the STS-85 mission in 1997. Auroras occur near the north and south poles when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's magnetic field. Image Credit: NASA. |wax| sfv| vth| pgr| dfz| tzl| zoi| qkd| gvg| hza| xou| sas| stn| bji| vav| tnx| jvl| pit| zuo| wxn| gnr| ihx| iag| ohv| zan| sma| exp| byk| anj| skt| lfs| vvf| jkl| qgq| ytl| swq| txl| qes| zbs| ywz| plw| utb| uxy| tym| xqu| gkl| pqj| dsm| iiq| huk|