Editors’ choice for the thematic issue “Physics of Auroral Phenomena” is the paper entitled “Effect of Solar Activity on Events of Growing Background Gamma Radiation” by the authors Yu. V. Balabin, A. V. Germanenko, E. A. Mikhalko, E. A. Maurchev (Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics, 2022, Volume 86, Issue 3, P. 290-294).