Aurora auroras is that an as-yet-undetected body around the dwarf star is throwing off material, as is the case with Jupiter and its moon Io. [[Category:Space plasmas]] [[Category:Arctic geography terminology]] [[Category:Atmospheric optical phenomena]] [[Category:Earth phenomena]] [[Category:Electrical phenomena]] [[Category:Light sources]] [[Category:Plasma physics]] [[Category:Planetary science]] [[Category:Sources of electromagnetic interference]] [[Category:Articles containing video clips]] Aurora An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), sometimes referred to as polar lights, northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in the high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras are produced when the magnetosphere is sufficiently
Aurora fur is stroked. They believed that the lights were the spirits of their departed friends dancing in the sky, and when they shone brightly it meant that their deceased friends were very happy. During the night after the [[Battle of Fredericksburg]], an aurora was seen from the battlefield. The [[Confederate Army]] took this as a sign that God was on their side, as the lights were rarely seen so far south. The painting "[[Aurora Borealis (painting)|Aurora Borealis]]" by [[Frederic Edwin Church]] is widely interpreted to represent the conflict of the [[American Civil War]]. A mid 19th-century British source says auroras