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NASA Intern Discovers New Type of Aurora Borealis
Business Insider ^ | December 26, 2019 | Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Posted on 12/30/2019 11:53:35 PM PST by LouieFisk

A NASA intern has discovered a new type of aurora in 3-year-old video footage of the Arctic sky.

With the help of NASA scientists and a satellite, Jennifer Briggs, a physics student at Pepperdine University, connected the unusual aurora to a sudden retreat in Earth's magnetic field. It's the first time scientists have seen an aurora caused solely by a compression of Earth's magnetic field.

Usually, auroras dance across the sky when a lot of high-energy particles from the sun, called solar wind, flood over Earth. But in this case, the sun didn't show any unusual or heightened activity.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: astronomy; aurora; auroraborealis; borealis; catastrophism; earth; gps; jenniferbriggs; magneticfield; magnetism; nasa; pepperdine; poleshift; science
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To: LouieFisk
You gotta take it as it comes - an island sinks, a mountain start up and so on. The planet will do what it wants, I reckon.

Yup. It can put on quite a show at times and there's nothing we can do about it but hang on and enjoy the ride. Sometimes the ride is a little less fun than others though.
Must have been fun watching the aurora do its weird dance that night but now that there's an explanation for it, there's a bit of an "eek!" to it.

21 posted on 12/31/2019 12:01:33 PM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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“Calling it “new” suggests some change in the planet, but who knows how many unobserved instances of this have occurred?”

Yes, it’s like when some new critter is discovered hanging around the ocean floor. It’s touted as a “new species”, even tho it’s been around an exceedingly long time. New to us, maybe.


22 posted on 12/31/2019 2:34:04 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Nateman

Biden’s brain having a rare thought?


23 posted on 01/01/2020 12:02:03 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.



24 posted on 01/01/2020 7:29:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: LouieFisk

From Pepperdine University, a private research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. No separation of church from satellites.


25 posted on 01/02/2020 4:48:36 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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