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Aurora is an optical phenomenon characterized by a colorful display of light in the night sky, sometimes accompanied by a humming and/or crackling sound. An auroral display in the Northern Hemisphere is called the aurora borealis, or the northern lights; in the Southern Hemisphere it is called the aurora australis. Auroras are the most visible effect of the solar wind upon the Earth's atmosphere. The aurora occur when the Van Allen radiation belt become "overloaded". The most powerful aurora tend to occur after coronal mass ejections. Aurora in Latin means dawn and Borealis comes from Boreas, the name of the Greek god of the northern wind.

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Aurora borealis from International Space Station - Video
Northern lights images from NASA: aurora australis viewed from the International Space Station
cybersleuth-kids.com/videos/video/2913/Nort...

Aurora Gallery
Realtime Aurora Photo Gallery
spaceweathergallery.com/aurora_gallery.html...

Aurora
In astronomy, an aurora is an optical phenomenon characterized by colorful displays of light in the night sky,
academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Aur...

The Aurora Page - Images of the Aurora From Space
Various views of the Aurora from the final frontie
geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/images/space...

Auroras: Paintings in the Sky
What are auroras? What makes them happen? What do they look like? Where can you see them? This illustrated journey answers these questions! The site includes stunning photos and QuickTime movies of the northern lights, realaudio interviews with NASA scientists and more.
exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auror...

The Aurora
Here you will earn about those beautiful lights that appear in the northern and southern night skies and how Nature produces them
image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/educator/Aurora7...

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