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Published in the journal Nature, the findings suggest that this brown dwarf might generate aurorae similar to those seen on our own planet as well as on Jupiter and Saturn.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

But “the aurorae are always there when you observe an eclipse,” said Katherine R. de Kleer, a planetary astronomer at the California Institute of Technology and one of the authors of both studies.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

This roiling sea of charged particles, known as the solar wind, causes space weather, including geomagnetic storms that can interfere with radio communications and power grids, and the visible aurorae on Earth.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 13, 2022

The main spacecraft would spend years flying around the planet, gathering observations on features such as the magnetic field that probably powers Uranus’s glowing aurorae.

From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2022

The aurora borealia, or rather, the polar aurora,—for there are aurorae australes as well as aurorae boreales,—has been an object of wonder and admiration from time immemorial.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various