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svetlana [45]
3 years ago
11

An aurora occurs when ____

Physics
1 answer:
ASHA 777 [7]3 years ago
7 0

The short answer to how the aurora happens is that energetic electrically charged particles (mostly electrons) accelerate along the magnetic field lines into the upper atmosphere, where they collide with gas atoms, causing the atoms to give off light.

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