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Sources

• Discoverak.com, What is the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights?http://www.discoverak.com/what_is_the_aurora_borealis_or_northern_lights.pdf
• Exploratorium: Auroras. http://www.exploratorium.edu/auroras/
• Exploratorium: Auroras: Paintings in the Sky. http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/
• NASA GSFC POLAR Brochure. "What Causes the Northern Lights?"http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/EPO/northern_lights/aurora_broch.pdf
• NASA IMAGE Web site.http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• NASA IMAGE, Exploring the Earth's Magnetic Field.http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis/pdf/odenwald_mag_lessons.pdf
• NASA IMAGE, The Northern Lights.http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis/pdf/nlbook_col.pdf
• NASA MSFC Space Plasma Physics, What is the Magnetosphere?http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/sppb/edu/magnetosphere/bullets.html
• NASA STEREO Home, Space Weather.http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/spaceweather/spaceweather.shtml
• NASA THEMIS Mission, Auroras.http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/index.html
• Nordlys, Northern Lights.http://www.northern-lights.no/english/what/index.shtml
• Petersen, F. "Aurora Borealis - The Northern Lights."http://www.imv.uit.no/english/science/publicat/waynorth/wn1/contents.htm
• Stern, David P. "NASA GSFC, A Teacher's Introduction to the Earth's Magnetosphere."http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Cluster1.htm
• Stern, David P. "NASA GSFC, Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere."http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/index.html
• The Viking Answer Lady, The Aurora Borealis and the Vikings.http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/njordrljos.shtml
• Windows to the Universe, Basic Facts About Space Weather.http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/basic_facts.html