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The origins of intense flickering displays of light high up in Earth's atmosphere are now revealed after a decades-long hunt, a new study finds. Similar auroras may take place high above Jupiter and ...

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Allison N. Jaynes is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1479, USA. Read the paper: Pulsating aurora from electron scattering by chorus waves Because ...