Today, Bing users can enjoy one of the most exquisite spectacles in the world, straight on their desktop PCs, courtesy of its latest video background.
That would be the Aurora borealis, which can be enjoyed in very few places in the world, all of which might seem cold and unwelcoming to many.
However, the phenom... |
31 January 2012 06:51 GMT |
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Investigations conducted with a constellation of NASA spacecraft have shown that particles produced in our planet's atmosphere by events known as substorms tend to get accelerated by Earth's magnetic field as they head towards the planetary surface.
Astrophysicists and atmospheric scientists have known ... |
2 February 2011 02:00 GMT |
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Many tourists visiting various locations where the Northern Lights are advertised as a possibility ask guides when the atmospheric events will “be turned on.” According to experts, guides may soon find it easier to answer this question with a higher degree of certainty. Astrophysicists know that the Sun p... |
15 February 2010 03:22 GMT |
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The northern and southern polar regions of our planet are at times lit by some of the most beautiful phenomena in the world – the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis. These lights originate in an upper layer of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere, when charged particles originating in the Sun and transporte... |
7 February 2009 04:35 GMT |
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Some of the best locations on Earth to do that are Norway, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and not forget, Alaska. Basically, it is to be “captured” by everyone living above 60 degrees north latitude. The Northern Lights - or Aurora Borealis, as it is also called – is likely to occur mostly from S... |
10 December 2008 10:53 GMT |
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The dynamics of explosive magnetic substorms, responsible for generating the aurora borealis and for the interferences affecting both satellites in Earth's orbit and electric and electronic devices on the surface, have now been revealed by NASA's five THEMIS spacecrafts, solving a mystery that has been a ce... |
25 July 2008 02:34 GMT |
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After a mission of twelve years to study the Aurora Borealis phenomenon the Polar satellite has now produced its final image, "The Broken Heart", as NASA researchers named it, a visible-light photograph of the lights generated during the interactions between solar wind, Earth's magnetic field and the upper atmos... |
29 April 2008 07:58 GMT |
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Aurora Borealis, most commonly known as the Northern Lights, is created when cosmic rays - solar wind in special - interact with the Earth's magnetic field and the atmosphere in order to determine light emissions in the gas atoms located in the upper layers of the atmosphere. In the middle of the 20th century, R... |
26 April 2008 01:48 GMT |
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The newly discovered glowing feature in Jupiter's atmosphere seems to be produced by a stream of electrically charged particles rushing from the planet's small volcanic moon Io, much in the same way the solar wind determines the appearance of aurora borealis on Earth in the polar region of the planet. Accor... |
18 March 2008 03:45 GMT |
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What better evidence for the coming of spring than the appearance of the aurora borealis, or most commonly known as the northern lights? Well, at least astrologically speaking, in the context of ever wobbling clime. For some unknown reason, it seems that the aurora borealis phenomenon takes place only during the spri... |
5 March 2008 03:45 GMT |
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The beautiful northern lights, or Aurora Borealis as they are commonly known, are usually triggered in the northern regions of the Earth, as electrically charged particles originating in the solar winds are captured by the planet's magnetic field and drawn towards the general regions of the poles. These electric... |
12 December 2007 06:39 GMT |
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