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While analyzing 2004 satellite images of the poles above the Antarctic, researchers stumbled upon a new type of aurora. Better known are the conventional aurora borealis in the Arctic and aurora australis in the Antarctic, appearing like curtains of brightly colored light in the polar atmosphere. The light is emitted... |
8 November 2007
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The aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar areas of Earth, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. Its southern counter... |
25 June 2007
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One of the most spectacular solar flares has been recorded on film with extreme details by the Japanese Hinode satellite and helped scientists see what's behind the colossal eruption.A solar flare is a violent explosion in the Sun's atmosphere with an energy equivalent to a billion megatons, traveling norm... |
26 April 2007
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Known as aurora borealis in northern latitudes (after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind) and as aurora australis in the South (australis meaning "of the South"), the beautiful lights in the sky are now known to be caused by the collision of charged particles (electrons), found in t... |
12 April 2007
08:58 GMT |
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The aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zones of Earth, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. Its southern counte... |
30 March 2007
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Dell and Alienware have introduced Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' 1TB hard drive as an option for consumers who want to buy a desktop system from the XPS, Aurora and Area-51 series of desktops. The previous offer regarding storage was Seagate's 750GB hard drive, now the second largest hard drive in th... |
15 March 2007
05:41 GMT |
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