what are the aurora borealis
Aurora Borealis is an 1865 painting by Frederic Edwin Church of the aurora borealis and the Arctic expedition of Dr. Isaac Hayes.The painting measures 56 Ã 84 1/2 in. (142.3 Ã 212.2 cm) and is now owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.urora Borealis is based on two separate sketches. The first incident was an aurora witnessed by Church's pupil, the Arctic explorer Isaac I. Hayes. Hayes provided a sketch and description of the aurora borealis display he witnessed one January evening.