Giant "Space Tornadoes" Spark Auroras on Earth

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 16:42 in Astronomy & Space

Wider than Earth itself, the fast, furious, frequent solar windstorms ignite the northern lights by stretching and snapping our magnetic field, a new study says.

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