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Professor Newman on… Northern Lights

e recently were treated to a rare performance of the aurora borealis, which reached down as far as the southern counties of England. My son lives much further north, in Northern Ireland, and captured some nice images of the lights on his phone. He asked me why the colours that the phone captured looked so different from what he saw with his eyes. In the photos

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