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Article: Insight.(Discoveries)(solar flares cause aurora borealis)
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- Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- January 2, 2004
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The sun fired two huge bursts of charged particles at Earth two days in a row in late October. The eruptions came from solar flares--sudden, violent releases of matter and energy from the sun's surface. The charged particles reached Earth soon after and were deflected by the planet's geomagnetic field toward the North and South poles. There, the ...
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