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Aurora Borealis

Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light

by Alexandre Costa on Dec.17, 2009, under Aurora Borealis

Source: NASA

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A continent-wide network of all-sky cameras has photographed a never-before-seen phenomenon: colliding auroras that produce explosions of light. The must-see images have solved a long-standing mystery of Northern Lights. (read more)

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