| TELEVISION IN THE SKY | |
| A Cathode Ray Tube and Aurora Creation Analogy | |
| by Lynne Zielinski | |
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Viewing the aurora is like looking at a giant television screen in the sky. The colorful shimmering, shifting curtains of light produced on the Earth's atmospheric screen are similar to the images produced on the screen of a television or computer monitor. |
| Let's take a look at how your television or computer monitor is similar to how the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) and Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) are formed. | |
