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Northern Lights and solar flares

Recent increases in solar activity, including the largest solar flare in four years, lead to hopes of seeing the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, in the UK. The aurora borealis is a beautiful, shimmering display of light from the upper atmosphere that is commonly seen during the night at latitudes further north than the UK. In the UK itself the chances of seeing the aurora increase the further north you go - ranging from one or two displays every 10 years in the south of England to one or two displays a week in the Shetland Islands.
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The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are caused by charged gas particles - that flow away from the Sun as a "solar wind" - interacting with the Earth's magnetic field.
This solar wind has its own magnetic field, which can "drag away" the Earth's magnetic field lines, disconnecting them from our planet.

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New observations by a suite of five NASA space probes has reportedly solved the mystery of the Northern Lights, attributing the cause of the natural phenomenon to powerful currents generated by giant electrical tornadoes in outer space.
The probe cluster, called Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS), indicate that these "space tornadoes" span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes.

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Bright northern lights topped by a falling meteorite, or shooting star, viewed from the Wisconsin shoreline of Lake Superior, received third place in a statewide nature photo contest sponsored by the Cedar Lakes Conservation Foundation, for Andrew Krueger of Duluth, Minn. Krueger, formerly of West Bend, was paid $25.

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Northern Lights captured in 3D for the first time
Watch footage from the first 3D film of the Northern Lights and find out more about the expedition to capture the phenomenon.

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The Northern Lights (almost) guaranteed
It might be -35C, but your best chance is on an arctic research station in Canada, says Martin Symington

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