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What Makes Auroras?

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Scientists are keeping a close eye on the sun, and you might be surprised to learn that even if we've passed the peak of ...
The Northern lights along with some quick flashes of Perseid meteors are seen in these time-lapses captured on the outskirts ...
But Thursday's incoming solar storm should make the auroras visible farther from the poles. The geomagnetic activity has a Kp index of 5, meaning the northern lights will also be brighter ...
“Aurora can often be observed somewhere on Earth from just after sunset or just before sunrise,” stated NOAA. “The aurora is ...
A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun have the potential to create dazzling auroras that may be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California but also disrupt ...
More powerful storms will result in the auroras appearing further toward the equator. Geomagnetic storms are typically scaled using the G-scale, which ranges from G1 to G5.
Auroras lighting up night skies across the United States are becoming a free, multiday music festival for the eyes, likely to return Saturday and Sunday, and possibly into next week, federal ...
A second mission will fire rockets into the dark spots or “holes” in auroras to try and determine what cases them to occur. The mission is named the Black and Diffuse Aurora Science Surveyor.
The same solar region that brought an outburst of night-time beauty in early May is coming back around. But things have changed, a space weather expert tells NPR.
Auroras happen due to the interaction of solar particles with Earth's magnetic field. And since CMEs can cause large magnetic disturbances, they can trigger the northern lights at much lower ...
New research shows auroras can also be seen on the Galilean moons of Jupiter: hypervolcanic Io, icy Europa, quirky Callisto and gigantic Ganymede. Auroras exist throughout the cosmos, but often in ...