Theta Aurora (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Theta Aurora

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A theta aurora -- so named because it looks like a Greek letter theta, a circle with a line through the middle -- as seen by NASA's IMAGE satellite on Sept. 15, 2005. New research helps explains what causes these unique events.

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NASA/R. Fear et al (2014)

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