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Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-16-13-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-16-13-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
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02 Jul 2025
Article |  | 02 Jul 2025

Aurora records in the Spanish newspaper Extremadura for the period 1923–2017

Constantino Sánchez Romero, Lucía Díaz-Condiño, Irene Tovar Hernández, Alejandro Jesús Pérez Aparicio, Víctor Manuel Sánchez Carrasco, María Cruz Gallego Herrezuelo, and José Manuel Vaquero

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This article collects and analyzes reports of auroras published in the Extremadura newspaper from 1923 to 2017. We identified 31 news items describing these events, including major auroras in 1926, 1938, 1957, and 1991. This research highlights the value of newspapers in reconstructing past solar activity.
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