UFO Broadcast: Auroras may have a common cause throughout the solar system

Saturday, July 22, 2023

Auroras may have a common cause throughout the solar system | Space

The way in which the radiant displays of colors in the sky known as auroras form on Earth may be how these lights arise throughout the solar system, according to new findings from Mercury.

On Earth, auroras — also known as the northern and southern lights — result when streams of high-speed particles from the sun, collectively known as the solar wind , slam into our world's magnetosphere, the shell of electrically charged particles trapped by the planet's ...