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Space Weather and Earth’s Aurora
April 16, 2012 | NASA

“Aurora are colorful lights in the night time sky primarily appearing in Earth’s polar regions. But what causes them? The culprit behind aurora is our own Sun and the solar plasma that is ejected during a magnetic event like a flare or a coronal mass ejection.” Quoted from the NASA video release.


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