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No, no. It's just the Magnetosphere.
After the two world wars, people finally sent satellites into space to investigate the ionosphere and magnetosphere. In fact, the first United States satellite, Explorer 1, discovered many belts of high radiation particles. Since the satellites could go up in space and take pictures, we could have pictures like this picture of an aurora around the North Pole. From this picture and other measurements, scientists figure out what the magnetosphere and the solar wind are like.
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