Aurora
noun
the ancient Roman goddess of the dawn.
aurorae
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pluralof Aurora.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This is also the reason for the aurorae that we see on Earth, commonly referred to as the Northern or Southern Lights since they are most extraordinary near the poles.
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
Father Secchi has remarked, that magnetic disturbances are manifested at Rome whilst the sky is veiled with clouds that are slightly phosphorescent, which, at night, present the appearance of feeble aurorae boreales.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various
