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- Aurora Dashboard (Experimental) | NOAA NWS Space Weather Prediction . . .
This page provides a prediction of the aurora’s visibility tonight and tomorrow night in the charts below The animations further down show what the aurora’s been up to over the last 24 hours and estimates what the next 30 minutes will be like
- Auroras - NASA Science
Auroras are vibrant light displays created when energetic particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere These events, also seen on other planets like Saturn and Jupiter, result in a range of colors depending on altitude and the atmospheric gases involved
- Aurora - Wikipedia
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere caused by enhanced speeds of solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma
- What Is an Aurora? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Frequently there are beautiful light shows in the sky These lights are called auroras If you're near the North Pole, it is called an aurora borealis or northern lights If you're near the South Pole, it is called an aurora australis or the southern lights
- Auroras: The Northern and Southern Lights - Center for Science Education
Auroras are dazzling displays of light, seen most often near the poles, that are caused by solar storms that disrupt Earth's atmosphere
- Aurora | Location Facts | Britannica
Aurora, luminous phenomenon of Earth’s upper atmosphere that occurs primarily in high latitudes of both hemispheres; in the Northern Hemisphere auroras are called aurora borealis, aurora polaris, or northern lights, and in the Southern Hemisphere they are called aurora australis or southern lights
- Aurora colors: What causes them and why do they vary? | Space
Auroras are caused by energized particles from the sun slamming into Earth's upper atmosphere at speeds of up to 45 million mph (72 million kph)
- What is an aurora? The psychedelic lights explained
Over millennia, humans have observed and been inspired by beautiful displays of light bands dancing across dark night skies Today, we call these lights the aurora: the aurora borealis in the
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