Waspie_Dwarf Posted January 27, 2016 #1 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Integral X-rays Earth’s aurora 26 January 2016 Normally busy with observing high-energy black holes, supernovas and neutron stars, ESA’s Integral space observatory recently had the chance to look back at our own planet’s aurora.Auroras are well known as the beautiful light shows at polar latitudes as the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field. As energetic particles from the Sun are drawn along Earth’s magnetic field, they collide with different molecules and atoms in the atmosphere to create dynamic, colourful light shows in the sky, typically in green and red. But what may be less well known is that auroras also emit X-rays, generated as the incoming particles decelerate. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast Posted January 27, 2016 #2 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Link does not work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted January 27, 2016 Author #3 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Link does not work It works perfectly for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast Posted January 27, 2016 #4 Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) It works perfectly for me. Hmm. Not here. Have checked a link in one of yr other topics and that worked fine. EDIT: works now when right-clicking "open in a new tab". Edited January 27, 2016 by toast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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