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Yukon Aurora Forecast

http://www.auroraforecast.com/

Predictions updated every 15 minutes for the Yukon-Alaska area.

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Words About Aurora

http://odin.gi.alaska.edu/lumm/non-sci/RS_aurora.html

References to the aurora borealis in Robert Service's poetic works.

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Troms Auroral Observatory

http://geo.phys.uit.no/index.html

Articles about the Aurora and the Geomagnetic Field. [Norwegian, English, German]

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The Northern Lights

http://www.nfb.ca/film/northern_lights/

Documentary video examining the phenomenon of the northern lights or aurora borealis.

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The Aurora Page

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/

Offers an aurora forecast, related links, and image galleries.

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Sondrestrom Research Facility

http://isr.sri.com/

Auroral observatory with a large complement of instruments (including incoherent scatter radar) on the west coast of Greenland.

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Sodankyl Geophysical Observatory

http://www.sgo.fi/

Observations and research related to northern lights, aeronomy, atmospheric chemistry, and related science.

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Secrets of the Polar Aurora

http://www.phy6.org/Education/aurora.htm

Detailed overview of the polar aurora, including where to see it, its causes, its relation to solar and interplanetary phenomena, the type of light, artificial auroras.

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Rice Space Institute Outreach

http://space.rice.edu/RSI/epolinks.html

Links to educational space weather pages, including the "Museums Teaching Planet Earth".

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Portable Auroral Imager

http://www.phys.ucalgary.ca/~trondsen/pai/

Data, images, and instrument description of a high resolution auroral imager at the University of Calgary.

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Polar Visible Imaging Investigations/Visible Imaging System

http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/www/vis/

Real-time images from space, gallery of movies, data, instrument description.

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Poker Flat Research Range

http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/aurora/index.html

Information for range users, real time data and images of aurora (only when it's dark in Alaska), and educational material on the aurora.

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Painted sky: the aurora

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/auroras.html

Image gallery of auroral photos from the ground, from space, and graphics related to aurora.

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NASA: Carrington Super Flare

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/06may_carringtonflare.htm?

Account of a solar flare observed by Richard Carrington on September 1, 1859, and the subsequent effects seen on earth.

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Kjell Henriksen Observatory

http://kho.unis.no/

Optical observatory on Svalbard (Spitzbergen), associated with University of Alaska and University of Troms. Includes information about how to get there, data and observarions, and the history of the observatory.

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