A New Type of Aurora Has Been Discovered by Citizen Scientists
A collaboration between physicists and citizen scientists has led to the discovery of a previously unknown course of Northern Lights . Dubbed “ the sand dune , ” the salient aurorean form is allow for new insights into Earth ’s upper atmosphere . Newresearchpublished today in AGU Advances describes the auroral dunes , which appear as undulating , unripe - tinged waves in the night sky . The dunes are appearing in the upper atm and likely represent a previously nameless physical process ....