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aurora borealis

Regional drug slang for phencyclidine (PCP).
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US-based medical grade collagen maker Collagen Solutions plc (AIM: COS) has completed the acquisition of Southern Light Biomaterials, the company said on Wednesday.
When aimed at us, solar flares can supercharge the planet's auroras - also known as the northern and southern lights - leading to spectacular night skies.
"However in the summer, daylight lasts between 18 and 20 hours and the aurora can be seen in Antarctica as the Southern Lights, so we can always head there next time."
Astronauts on the International Space Station snapped this picture of the aurora australis, or southern lights, as they flew over New Zealand.
This assignment required all four crew members to complete, he said.One of the most spectacular sights shown during the museum presentation was film footage taken by the crew of the Northern and Southern lights dancing in a green aurora across the skies below Atlantis.Ferguson said the shuttle, a combination rocket and airplane, was "a true revolutionary spacecraft." Of the 37 shuttle flights, about one third were launched in order to carry equipment into space to assemble the ISS, Magnum noted.The shuttle missions also conducted independent scientific research in space, including radar mapping of Earth observations; the servicing of satellites; and servicing the Hubble Telescope, she said.
James Katz, who co-founded Chile's first private equity film fund, Southern Lights Entertainment, is in pre-production on chiller "La Vina" (The Vineyard).
Earth's Southern Lights are photographed from outer space.
Sena jettisons that hopelessness, casting Antarctica (Manitoba fills in for the film) as a winter wonderland, though the CG-created southern lights look as awe-inspiring as a tub of Rite Aid rainbow sherbet.AaNo need to worry, though: Whiteout helpfully employs a character to tell us just how spectacular those lights are.
At the South Pole, Osbert meets a beautiful female penguin and falls in love, while the boy gets to view spectacular southern lights. At last it's time for everyone to go home.
The project consisted of 321 miles of 42-inch diameter pipe comprising the bulk of the Wisconsin segment of Enbridge's Southern Access Program and 321 miles of 20-inch pipe for Enbridge's Southern Lights Project.
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