The northern lights are an atmospheric phenomenon that's regarded as the Holy Grail of skywatching.
On Earth, the northern lights' counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere is the southern lights — they are physically the same and differ only in their location. As such, scientists expect them to occur simultaneously during a solar storm, but sometimes the onset of one lags behind the other.
"While some auroral emissions occur in both hemispheres at the same magnetic local time, other emissions appear in opposing sectors in the two hemispheres at different times — for example, pre-midnight in the Northern Hemisphere and post-midnight in the Southern Hemisphere," Petrinec told Space.com.is due in part to the sun's magnetic field interfering with Earth's magnetic field, but research into the phenomenon is ongoing..
shortly after arriving at the Red Planet in early 2021. The probe's observations could help scientists better understand this mysterious phenomenon. "Our model for this radio emission from our stars is a scaled-up version of Jupiter and Io, with a planet enveloped in the magnetic field of a star, feeding material into vast currents that similarly power bright aurorae," Joseph Callingham, a radio astronomer at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the Dutch national observatory ASTRON and co-author on both new studies,These feeder planets remain hypothetical at the moment; nobody has yet discovered any circling the red dwarfs...
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