Northern lights News
The Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis. Every year, these colorful, shimmering lights in the night sky draw in millions of onlookers. You want a cozy retreat in a glass igloo in Finland, an adventurous trip in Svalbard, or a cultural journey in Iceland, these places offer unforgettable chances to experience the wonders of the Northern Lights.
Pilots flying over Scandanavian nations are taking unscheduled 360 turn to let their passengers enjoy Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.
The latest observations by EMM include a never-before-seen phenomenon, dubbed the 'sinuous discrete aurora'
'Sinuous discrete aurora' is a huge worm-like aurora that extends halfway around the Red Planet
The observations are some of the brightest and most extensive yet seen by Hope
Among a variety of auroras, pulsating auroral patches appearing at dawn are common but the physical mechanisms driving this auroral pulsation had so far not been verified through observation.
Astronauts who have been a part of the space station crew in the past, have all shared beautiful images of auroras seen from the orbiting laboratory, forming a shield-like cover on the Earth's surface.
This strange ribbon of purple light named 'Steve' was so first observed by citizen scientists in Canada and eventually verified by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The study shows how sunspot records can be used to reconstruct what happened the last time the Earth experienced such a dramatic dip in solar activity more than three centuries ago.
This sight is seen around the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres and this time around, the occurrence was predicted to take place last Wednesday.
The Sun constantly ejects streams of particles into space in the solar wind.
The US space agency is planning to launch two sounding rockets over Norway this winter to study how particles move in a region near the North Pole where Earth's magnetic field is directly connected to the solar wind.
Researchers, including those from NASA, are exploring how Twitter can be used to develop a model that predicts when and where the aurora borealis, commonly known as the Northern Lights, will be visible.
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