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Northern lights caused by accelerated electrons crashing into Earth


Northern lights caused by accelerated electrons crashing into Earth
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The northern lights, or Aurora Borealis, have fascinated humanity for millennia but exactly how they re created has remained a bit of a mystery.
Now scientists say they have definitive proof the spectacular cosmic shimmer is caused by powerful electromagnetic waves, called Alfven waves, that accelerate electrons toward Earth under certain conditions.
It was in 1946 that Russian physicist Lev Landau first theorized electrons surfed on the electric field of a wave, a process he called Landau damping.
In a study published this week in the journal Nature Communications, scientists at the University of Iowa confirmed Landau s predictions and definitively pointed to the effect as causing the northern lights. ....

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