The aurora borealis hung in the southern sky like a curtain being vacuumed by a giant.
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FSF - May2006
Some years ago, the military sent up a rocket that dispersed some material to neutralize ions in the upper atmosphere, and it turned the aurora borealis off for a while.
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Omni: September 1994
I mean, they turned the goddamned aurora borealis off!
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Omni: September 1994
Only in lowly Moss, where the talented human boy had deflected the clouds of ash with his sigil, had the aurora borealis shone on unimpeded.
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Julian, May - Boreal Moon 01 - Conqueror's Moon
The aurora borealis flickered green on the northern horizon in a splendid display, and after I buried Bessie, I stood in the snow for a long hour, looking up.
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F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996