Why Do We Call The Northern And Southern Lights Auroras?
It was the French scientist Pierre Gassendi who gave them this name after first seeing them in 1621. In the southern latitudes, it is known as Aurora Australis, Australis being the Latin word for “of the south”. What are the southern and northern lights called? In the north, the phenomenon is called the aurora borealis …
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