Aurora: A Celestial Majesty
- Aurora is a natural display of light sometimes shimmers in the Earth’s sky and predominantly seen in high altitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic area).
- It is concentrated around the polar zones of the Earth’s surface, depicting a gigantic oval shape called ‘auroral oval’.
- The phenomena of aurora can be classified into two categories based on its location of occurrence.
- It is called Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights in the Arctic Circle, while its counterpart in the Antarctic Circle is called Aurora Australis or Southern Lights.
- The term ‘aurora borealis’ was first coined by Galileo in 1619.
- The charged particles of solar wind ....
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