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Like its brighter and fast-moving relative the aurora, night airglow has strong emissions at specific wavelengths.
Thanks to scientific satellites which monitor the sun, it is possible to know in advance when an aurora might occur.
The orangish arc extending to the left from the aurora is airglow viewed edgewise on the limb of the Earth.
By studying how the ionosphere reacts to the experiments, scientists can begin to understand how it behaves during natural airglow and aurora.
I was able to watch the aurora for 30 minutes before the sky began to cloud over.
Seen from space, an aurora appears as a ring of energy circling a planet's polar region.
In the southern hemisphere, sky watchers saw the aurora australis over New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa.
This causes the phenomenon called the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis.
When geomagnetic activity is low, the aurora typically is located, in the hours around midnight, at about 67 degrees magnetic latitude.
The triangular snowflake is no more interesting than a four-leaf clover, ball lightning, or the aurora borealis.
After dreaming up a death ray and an artificial aurora to light the world at night, he died in a hotel tending his pet pigeons.
Although we can't claim the aurora borealis as our own, Alberta's north is blessed with prime viewing spots.
In the aftermath, the solar particles rain down on the atmosphere and can be seen in remarkable displays of aurora borealis, or northern lights.
During a typical three-hour substorm, the aurora near midnight exhibits a sequence of changes called the auroral substorm.
Connors uses the aurora borealis-a persistent feature of the region's sky-as a tool to forecast space weather.
Unlike the aurora, airglow does not exhibit structures such as arcs and is emitted from the entire sky at all latitudes at all times.
The flow of the solar wind around the Earth's magnetosphere is the ultimate power source for the aurora.
At this time of year the aurora borealis can occasionally be seen on the northern horizon during moderate auroral activity.
When it has reached the peak of perfection, my spiritual smile, like an infinite aurora, shall be in all the universe, from which all stains, all misery, all pain, and all imperfection will have passed.
Last night the sky, from twenty to thirty miles in the rear, toward the east, was brilliant, as tho with the glare of the aurora borealis, from dusk to dawn.
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We observed the aurora australis many times, but only a few of its appearances were specially powerful.
Called aurora borealis or aurora australis, according to the hemisphere in which it occurs.
A cold luminosity due to electrification, like that of the aurora borealis, would seem to fit the case better.
The nightly displays of aurora australis were not very brilliant as the moon was nearing the full.
Both in the case of the Crookes tube and the aurora these streamers are produced by electrical discharges through rarefied air.
Success began to look not like an aurora, but like a solid structure built of bricks that must be carried in hods.
The aurora was always with us, and almost without exception could be seen on a dark, driftless night.
In the night the aurora australis made a very brilliant and luminous appearance.
And that is all I can tell you about the aurora borealis, for that is all I know about it.
In the night the aurora australis was visible, but very faint, and no ways remarkable.
The sky was bright with the aurora borealis that would pale before the sun.
We made many excellent observations of the aurora australis in all parts of the heavens.
Already had the aurora tinged the horizon with roseate hues.
The aurora borealis is one of the most beautiful spectacles in the sky.
It was the zodiacal light, an aurora borealis on a scale inconceivable!
That night there was a most beautiful display of the aurora borealis.
Ships will cross the polar seas, thawed beneath the aurora borealis.
What is the cause of the aurora borealis, or northern light?
The aurora borealis there is seen in all its native beauty and grandeur.
The stars leaped and danced in the frosty air, and overhead the colored bars of the aurora borealis were shooting like great searchlights.
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