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- Kids and Teens: School Time: Science: The Earth: The Atmosphere: Auroras (17)
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Alaska Science Forum: Aurora - Large article archive by a variety of authors offering explanations of phenomena related to aurora.
Asahi Beer Natural Science Classroom - Interactive lecture on the aurora; includes myths, images, and scientific facts.
Aurora Borealis Page - Includes various image galleries, tips on spotting the lights, an FAQ, and related links.
Aurora Borealis Photo - Offers prints for sale by Fairbanks, Alaska-based photographer Jack Finch. Galleries are organized by type and color.
Aurora Gallery - Photos from many photographers and places, sorted by auroral event.
Aurora November 2001 - Pictures taken during the big storm on 5 November, 2001, in Iowa.
The Aurora Page - Offers an aurora forecast, related links, and image galleries.
Aurora Photo Gallery - Photos of auroras, also know as the Northern Lights.
Aurora Urbanis - Northern Lights in Urban Landscapes - A photo series on the Northern Lights in the city of Tampere at Southern Finland
Auroral Activity Index - NOAA POES - Auroral Activity from NOAA/TIROS.
Auroral Image Gallery - Auroral image gallery, including images from space.
Auroral Image of the Day - X-ray images of the auroral oval from space (PIXIE on POLAR)
Auroral photography - Auroral photos from Sodankyla, Finland
Auroras 2000.com : Presented by the Exploratorium - Guide to the Northern and Southern Lights. News, NASA images, forecasts, and background on the aurora.
AuroraWatch - Image gallery and explanations with updated solar activity chart.
Automatic Geophysical Observatories - All-sky images and keagrams from South Pole.
Borealis 2000 - Photo gallery of aurora borealis, meteor showers, and planetary alignments hosted by photographer Dirk Obudzinski. Includes news and sky forecasts.
Comparative Aeronomy in the Solar System - Workshop, discussion group, links for topics related to aurora on other planets in the solar system.
Current POLAR UVI (Ultraviolet Imager) Image - The entire auroral oval from space in real-time.
Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer (FAST) - Polar orbiting satellite for auroral studies.
GEDDS Allsky Image Display - Real-time auroral images from Poker Flat, Alaska (during darkness in winter only).
Geophysical Institute - Aurora Forecast - Daily during the winter. Summer has only forecasts when significant magnetic storms happen.
Home of the Northern Lights - Image Gallery of aurora photos, instruction and tips for taking auroral photos
How to Find and Photograph Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) - Describes equipment, techniques, prediction of visibility. Includes a brief description of the phenomenon and some photographs.
Hubble Images of Jupiter's Aurora - Jupiter's auroral emissions and small auroral spots associated with the flux tube of jovian satellites.
JHU/APL auroral particles and imaging - Stories, data from DMSP satellite, movies from space, links, publications.
Jupiter's Aurora - Images taken by the Galileo spacecraft.
Kjell Henriksen Observatory - Optical observatory on Svalbard (Spitzbergen), associated with University of Alaska and University of Tromsø. Includes information about how to get there, data and observarions, and the history of the observatory.
Latest IMAGE-WIC (wide-band imaging camera) image - Real-time images of the entire auroral oval from space.
Moray Skies - Auroral photos from Scottish photographer Richard Pearce. Includes related links.
Museum of time - Time lapse photography of aurora (Netherlands).
Neptune Aurora - There is even aurora on Neptune.
NOAA POES (Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite) - Real-time auroral activity derived from satellite.
Northern Lights - Image gallery, photo contests, regular updates, news. [English and Norwegian]
Painted sky: the aurora - Image gallery of auroral photos from the ground, from space, and graphics related to aurora.
Poker Flat Research Range - Information for range users, real time data and images of aurora (only when it's dark in Alaska), and educational material on the aurora.
Polar Visible Imaging Investigations/Visible Imaging System - Real-time images from space, gallery of movies, data, instrument description.
Prime Focus-Iowa Aurora Borealis - Lots of nice pictures.
Proton Precipitation into the Atmosphere - Workshops, discussion group, links.
Rice Space Institute Outreach - Links to educational space weather pages, including the "Museums Teaching Planet Earth".
Saturn's Aurora - High quality Hubble Space Telescope images.
Secrets of the Polar Aurora - Detailed overview of the polar aurora, including where to see it, its causes, its relation to solar and interplanetary phenomena, the type of light, artificial auroras.
Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory - Observations and research related to northern lights, aeronomy, atmospheric chemistry, and related science.
Sondrestrom Research Facility - Auroral observatory with a large complement of instruments (including incoherent scatter radar) on the west coast of Greenland.
Tromsø Auroral Observatory - Articles about the Aurora and the Geomagnetic Field. [Norwegian, English, German]
University of Calgary portable auroral imager - Data, images, and instrument description of a high resolution auroral imager.
Uranus Aurora - Explanation of how aurora is different on Uranus
Words About Aurora - References to the aurora borealis in Robert Service's poetic works.
Yukon Aurora Forecast - Predictions updated every 15 minutes for the Yukon-Alaska area.
Earth's Grand Light Show - National Geographic Magazine article on the aurora. (November 1, 2001) Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
