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Pulsating aurora

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The aurora is caused by showers of atomic particles in the upper atmosphere, but there are uncertainties about the particles' movements just before they strike the atmosphere. The mechanism responsible for the pulsating aurora would help us to understand what happens in those last few seconds.

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