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Aurora

Aurora is a beautiful and colourful light show created in the night sky! It's made up of different colours like yellow, green, red and purple. It is caused when charged particles (electrons) from the Sun travel all the way to Earth and interact with the Earth's atmosphere. When this happens, it creates different colours that look like a rainbow in the night sky.
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