You’ve probably seen a bunch of news articles about an unusual solar event making the aurora visibleas far down as the southern US.If you want just a short answer as to what causes the aurora, it’s just solar flares. But how does it allwork,and if you took a look outside, you ...
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"Ernst Abbe established what an apochromatic lens must do. To be truly apochromatic the objective must focus three different colors in the same spot and certain optical defects (spherical aberration and coma) must be corrected in two different places on the visual spectrum Those are the rules. ...
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Here is an easy to grasp guide to the science behind one of nature's greatest light shows, written by a geologist and experienced aurora guide.
And this is what’s happening when we’re seeing an aurora. Now let’s jump ahead to the early 1970s and a discovery made using a device called a coronagraph. A coronagraph attaches to a telescope and acts like a disk that blocks out the Sun… it creates an artificial solar eclipse, ...
"I think we are all very excited about it," said lead study author Aurora Ricart, a scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Marine Sciences. Ocean acidification is a side effect of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Some of this CO: dissolves out of the air and into the se...
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While you can never be 100 percent certain of an aurora viewing, in Tromsø, it's as close to a guarantee as possible: About half of the city's dark, and clear nights boast excellent light shows [source:Hansen]. And because darkness covers the city about nine months out of the year...