Stories tagged "northernlights"

The eerie mysterious glow of light and hissing roar of the wind observed in the earth's polar latitudes is called the Northern Lights aka Aurora Borealis, named after the enchanting goddess of Dawn (Aurora) and the North (Borealis.) Folklore surrounds

Researchers have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that create the Northern Lights.

A flotilla of NASA probes has solved the 30-year mystery behind the most colorful aurora displays on Earth and the explosive magnetic "substorms" that spawn them.

The researchers hope the finding will be a step in developing reliable forecasts of geomagnetic storms.

Duck! Plasma bullets are zinging past Earth. That's the conclusion of researchers studying data from NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft. The gigantic bullets, they say, are launched by explosions 1/3rd of the way to the Moon and when they hit Earth—wow.

Spectacular displays created by the Northern Lights cause satellite navigation systems to go awry, scientists have found.

If you've never seen The Northern Lights then you can not possibly understand what you're missing out on. And if you have seen them, you know that you'll probably never see anything quite like them again in your life.

Some light in Earth's aurora glow is polarized -- a state not thought possible for the aurora, new observations indicate. The findings may improve understanding of Earth’s upper atmosphere, its magnetic field, and the energies of particles from the Sun.

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Richard Branson, the genius behind Virgin Galactic Spaceship, is now considering new ways to get uber-rich people enthused about private space tourism.