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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.
How scientists tracked a massive emission from the sun right across the solar system.
The aurora borealis lights up the Arctic night skies. Also called the Northern Lights, the phenomenon is the result of beams of charged particles tracing along the Earth’s magnetic field and entering the…
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