Aurora
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Aurora (disambiguation)for other, similarly-named pages.
An aurora was a natural light display in the sky. It was caused by particles excited by energetic charged particles travelling along magnetic field lines into a planet's upper atmosphere. (COMIC: The First [+]Loading...["The First (comic story)"])
In northern latitudes this effect was known as the aurora borealis. Goronwy saw such an effect in the skies of Wales. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Loading...["Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)"]) The Sixth Doctor compared the colourful sky of Capron to the aurora borealis. (AUDIO: The Macros [+]Loading...["The Macros (audio story)"])
In southern latitudes this effect was known as the aurora australis. The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones visited Antarctica in 1915 to watch the aurora australis, (COMIC: The First [+]Loading...["The First (comic story)"]) while the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald later saw it after their adventure involving Dr Patricia Audley and her immoral experiments. (COMIC: Blood and Ice [+]Loading...["Blood and Ice (comic story)"]) The aurora australis was also visible when the First Doctor, the Twelfth Doctor and Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart met in Antarctica, and when the three, along with Bill Potts, escaped from Testimony's spaceship. (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
During his first visit to Vortis, the First Doctor saw lights in the sky which looked like the aurora borealis. (PROSE: The Lost Ones [+]Loading...["The Lost Ones (short story)"]) On a subsequent visit, both he and Ian Chesterton saw these lights, the latter also comparing it to the aurora borealis. (TV: The Web Planet [+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"])
The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visited to the Sigimund Galaxy to watch the aurora arctialis, which was caused by three suns. (COMIC: The Traitor [+]Loading...["The Traitor (comic story)"]) In an alternate universe, Omega saw the aurora arctialis. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors [+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"])
The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler visited to Serac to see its aurora. (COMIC: The Betrothal of Sontar [+]Loading...["The Betrothal of Sontar (comic story)"])
