Aurora

ASTROPHYSICAST

English - February 25, 2022 13:41 - 7 minutes - 6.68 MB
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The northern lights, or the aurora borealis, are beautiful dancing waves of light that have captivated people for millennia. But for all its beauty, this spectacular light show is a rather violent event. Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma.

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