Here’s what’s going on to cause more widespread northern and southern lights.
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The aurora was noticeable with the naked eye – but was spectacular through a camera lens.
Australians were in for a Mother’s Day treat as auroras swept the skies. But there was little warning, and the spectacle didn’t repeat.
The electric rainbow of the aurora happens when excited atoms relax via ‘forbidden transitions’.
The sun is expected to reach its solar maximum in 2025. Recent auroras suggest that the maximum may be bigger than predicted.
The aurora is one of nature’s most spectacular sights, a dazzling glow in the upper atmosphere driven by space weather.
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.
Researchers have found the first Australian evidence of this global event, during which people on Earth would have witnessed a multitude of spectacular auroras.
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Associate Professor, RMIT University
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McKenzie Research Fellow in Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Space Physicist, NASA
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Professor of Space Science and Physics, Athabasca University
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Professor of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer, Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex
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Honorary Research Fellow, Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
