"Space Tornadoes" Power the Northern Lights

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By Eliza Strickland
Apr 29, 2009 2:26 AMNov 5, 2019 9:00 PM
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Thanks to a quintet of satellites and a backup posse of ground-based telescopes, researchers have gotten their best look ever at how auroras--also known as the southern and northern lights--begin to form in space. The dazzling light displays are provoked by "space tornadoes," researchers say.

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