Auroras
An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), sometimes referred to as polar lights (aurora polaris), northern lights (aurora borealis), or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind. These disturbances are sometimes strong enough to alter the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying color …
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Transport Action Canada · 9 December 2023 English
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CIRANO: Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations · 25 July 2023
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observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight. Credit: NASA …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 20 February 2023 English
the body / knows what / it truly / wants yet / the mind / wavers allIn Edward Carson’s provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and …
heaven a bricolage of sounds at night the auroras hiss above the earth and barking crow in …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 13 March 2021 English
A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephan Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands. Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard …
to crack like a wolf’s jaw the lunar fuse and auroras to arc and vibrate subarctic night Our eyes burned … and raven, rainbow light of glaciers, fires and auroras, echo of boulders and mountains where red moons …
ULCC: Uniform Law Conference of Canada · 11 January 2021 English
Banking Resolution MOVED by Kusham Sharma, seconded by Doug Downey, THAT for amounts over $5,000, two members of the Executive Committee or a member of the Executive Committee and the …
have a private teepee so they can observe the auroras between 11pm and 3:30am. The cost is $120/pp and …
ANN: Annick Press · 2021 English
Science starts with a question in this fascinating compendium for curious kids. The team behind the acclaimed Why Don’t Cars Run on Apple Juice? is back to tackle more kid …
Suddenly—poof! There’s a burst of colored light! These auroras are our only visible evidence that Earth is being … Learn Look up. Beautiful green, yellow, and red auroras are actually oxygen atoms interacting with Sun …
HER: Heritage House Publishing · 3 September 2019 English
As this self-reflective book demonstrates, when one takes up the serious study of water, one cannot but be surprised at how far that interest can take you: from the very …
gases burst into flaming broom stars, comets, the auroras and the Milky Way. Though Aristotle’s geocentric …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2019 English
Daniel Cowper's debut poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, speaks for an unrooted age, for unrooted people. In these poems, city-dwellers long to ally themselves with some sympathetic culture or the evolutionary …
sleep. Under buzzing auroras we drowse on the march and bump each other awake …
INN: Inanna Publications and Education Inc. · 1 May 2019 English
We Are Malala is an imagined dialogue between Nobel Peace winner Malala Yousafzai and the poet about historical, cultural and spiritual themes. Malala's autobiography, I Am Malala, inspired this collection. …
unsuspecting Inuit wolves huskies howling at oily toxic auroras. Third World nations scapegoated for western fervour …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 25 March 2019 English
The late sun falls slowly into the afternoon of your eyes, and there it pauses as one might pause to take a breath --from Lost Nothing Is But You and …
of undying grass where you, the sun and rolling auroras move in the same flux, the questions one might …
