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Aurora Images Taken by Stargazers May Help Explain Elusive Red Northern Lights

Photos from hobbyists show unbroken light streaks linking red and green auroras, suggesting fast electrons caused both colors, researchers said.

Learn how photos of a rare aurora over Germany offer new clues to what makes the northern lights glow red.

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Recordings of polar lights about Göttingen provide surprising insights: Researchers now refute an old doctrine about the creation of red polar lights.

·Kassel, Germany
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Spectacular images from Germany from the Northern Lights in May 2024 helped researchers to better understand a previously undescribed phenomenon. Hobby photographers should contribute to further studies.

·Hamburg, Germany
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Photos taken by stargazers help solve elusive northern lights mystery

There could be several different kinds of red aurora, scientists suspect

·London, United Kingdom
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With their mysterious glow and swirling veils of colour, the aurora even enchant experienced researchers. When a particularly intense solar storm reached the Earth on the night of May 10, 2024 and relevant websites predicted aurora, even in the south of Lower Saxony, several researchers from the Technical University of [...]

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