Aurora
An aurora is a natural light display in Earth's upper atmosphere caused by charged particles from the Sun colliding with atoms in the atmosphere.
An aurora is a natural light display in Earth's upper atmosphere caused by charged particles from the Sun colliding with atoms in the atmosphere. These collisions excite oxygen and nitrogen, which then emit light of different colours such as green, red, and purple. When observed in high-latitude regions they are called polar lights and aurora polaris. In the Arctic they are called the northern lights or aurora borealis; in the Antarctic, the term southern lights or aurora australis is used. Auroras display dynamic patterns of radiant light that appear as curtains, rays, spirals or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
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Worth seeing in and around Aurora
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 012012 Aurora shooting
On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Mershops Town Center Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms.
2.8 km · mass shooting in a movie theater in the United States · Wikipedia - 02Anschutz Medical Campus
The University of Colorado Anschutz is the academic health sciences campus in Aurora, Colorado, that houses the University of Colorado's six health sciences-related schools and colleges, including the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the CU Anschutz Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the CU Anschutz College of Nursing, the CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine, and the Colorado School of Public Health, as well as the graduate school for various fields in the biological and biomedical sciences. The campus also includes the 184-acre Fitzsimons Innovation Community, UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs hospital, and a residential/retail town center known as 21 Fitzsimons.
1.8 km · University of Colorado's health sciences-related schools and colleges · Wikipedia - 03Chapel No. 1
Chapel No. 1 or Eisenhower Memorial Chapel is a historic chapel located at the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, United States.
6 km · historic chapel in Denver, Colorado, US · Wikipedia - 04Fairmount Mausoleum
Fairmount Mausoleum is a public mausoleum at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado. The building was designed by architects Frederick E. Mountjoy and Francis W. Frewan.
5.9 km · cemetery in Denver, Colorado · Wikipedia - 05Town Center at Aurora
Mershops Town Center at Aurora is an enclosed, two-level regional shopping center located in Aurora, Colorado, and covers a leasable area over 1 million square feet. It lies at the center of the commercial and retail district in the area, adjacent to Aurora City Square, Aurora City Place, and Aurora Park Shopping Center, a strip mall.
2.5 km · shopping center in Aurora, Colorado · Wikipedia - 06William Smith House
The William Smith House is a home located at 412 Oswego Ct. in Aurora, Colorado.
1.9 km · historic house in Aurora, Colorado, USA · Wikipedia - 07Blanche A. Wilson House
Blanche A. Wilson House, also known as Centennial House, is a historic house in Aurora, Colorado that now serves as a museum. It is open for tour by the Aurora Historical Society on the second Sunday of the month in the summer season.
3.6 km · house · Wikipedia
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Getting to Aurora
- Airports
- Denver (DEN), 20 km · City of Colorado Springs Municipal (COS), 103 km
- Stations
- 40th Ave & Airport Blvd–Gateway Park station, 5.9 km · Peoria station, 4.5 km · Aurora Metro Center station, 2.5 km
- Colorado Springs → Aurora100 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · $9–12
- Albuquerque → Aurora541 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · $180–270
- Salt Lake City → Aurora610 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · $190–290
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No local-transport research exists yet for Aurora
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Next door to Aurora
Aurora is 13 km from Denver, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.