This is a bit long but keep watching for the surprise in the middle.” The surprise is the incredible aurora, a striking display of green light caused by charged particles from the sun ...

The energy released during these collisions creates the signature glow. In the past, astronomers have seen tantalizing hints of auroral activity on Neptune, for example, in the flyby of NASA’s ...

While doing so, they come into contact with molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere, which collide with them and cause them to glow in aurora-like colors. When the aurora finally materialized on ...