TITLE: Creating Aurora-like phenomenon in a laboratory
QUESTION [4 upvotes]: Is it possible to recreate Aurora's in a laboratory experiment? Obviously, I'm not asking if it's possible to have bands of plasma thousands of kilometers long inside a lab. But rather, is it possible to create a particle stream analogous to solar winds, and ionize low-pressure gas into a plasma using this artificial solar wind?
If it is possible, has this been done before?

REPLY [1 votes]: Look into something called a Terella, which is what Birkeland used to correlate "cathode ray" (high energy electrons) trajectories with similar ring shaped footprints in the Ionosphere.
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