Astronomers are warning that Earth could be hit any minute by space weather and intense aurora borealis following the sun's ...

Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral activity on the ice giant, astronomers have captured Neptune’s aurorae for ...

Excited nitrogen molecules, for example, produce the rarer blue and violet/pink auroras. The most frequently observed aurorae are red and green, but a common misconception is that these two colours ...

This week, a lost aurora on Neptune that was first hinted at 36 years ago has finally been captured by JWST, a newly ...

The bursts of colorful light—the northern lights—are colliding particles (usually electrons) and atoms; at collision, electrons can return to their initial, lower energy state, and in the process, ...

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