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How researchers are working what out the incredible optical phenomena in Earth’s skies can tell us about other planets.
The northern lights have been interpreted in many ways down the centuries - from portents of political upheaval to signs of religious revival.
Phenomena like the Northern Lights and rainbows can seem magical – even to physicists like Partha Chowdhury who study them.
Phone cameras are an example of what’s called computational photography. Digital tools built into these cameras can enhance your images in real time.
The aurora was noticeable with the naked eye – but was spectacular through a camera lens.
We’re currently a few years into the 25th studied solar cycle. An 11-year period of sun activity, this solar cycle is more active than previously expected.
People expect to brave brutally cold landscapes if they want to catch sight of the aurora borealis. So people were stunned to see the ethereal light display as far south as Cornwall.
Half-wild Lyra from Northern Lights was the first female character who felt real to Jane Gleeson-White. Then she met Elena Ferrante’s ‘ferocious, filthy, quicksilver’ Lila, a more complex version.
The sun has entered a phase causing more chances to see the northern lights in the UK, an expert explains.
It’s often said that the aurora, or the northern lights, is caused by ‘particles from the Sun’. But in reality things are more complicated.
A curious kid asks: Why are the northern lights only spotted at areas around the poles?
Depending on who you ask, the northern lights may, very occasionally, sound like ‘rustling silk’ or ‘two planks meeting flat ways’.
Researchers have found the first Australian evidence of this global event, during which people on Earth would have witnessed a multitude of spectacular auroras.
As the Earth’s magnetic north pole heads towards Siberia, concerns have been raised that the northern lights could move with it.
The northern lights might look like magic, but they can actually be explained by science – here’s how.
A look at the spooky side of electromagnetism in our culture.
Historical records can help us understand what will happen to the northern lights.
Recent Martian findings are just the latest discoveries of aurora on other planets, both in and out of our solar system.
Astronauts living on the ISS get to experience the wonders of the universe’s natural phenomena like no one else.
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Senior Research Associate in Space and Planetary Physics, Lancaster University
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Professor of Space Physics, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Design and Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles; California Institute of the Arts
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McKenzie Research Fellow in Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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