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‘What is it? ‘Scientists explain white spots that appear near aurora borealis’

An image of an aurora showing a structured continuous emission. Credit: University of Calgary Faculty of Science Research Team The whitish-gray spots that sometimes appear in the night sky with the aurora borealis have been described for the first time by researchers at the University of Calgary. The paper, published Dec. 30 in the journal Nature Communications, investigates the “structured…