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 explanations: that the ocean was surrounded by vast fires; that the sun flares could reach around the world to its night side; or that [[glacier]]s could store energy so that they eventually became [[Fluorescence|fluorescent]]. In the 1740s [Benjamin Franklin] theorized in his paper "Aurora Borealis, Suppositions and Conjectures towards forming an Hypothesis for its Explanation" that an aurora was caused by a concentration of electrical charge in the polar regions intensified by the snow and moisture in the air: Observations of the rhythmic movement of compass needles due to the influence of an aurora were confirmed in the Swedish city