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Aurora Over Manitoba
Photo: Green aurora over Churchill, Manitoba
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A magical variety of shapes and colors dance in the sky as solar wind buffets Earth's magnetic field. When the aurora peaked in the late 1980s, shows over Churchill, Manitoba, included a green ribbon and a rosy curtain.
Photograph by Norbert Rosing

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