Posted on 05/03/2016 12:44:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: It was bright and green and stretched across the sky. This striking aurora display was captured last month just outside of Östersund, Sweden. Six photographic fields were merged to create the featured panorama spanning almost 180 degrees. Particularly striking aspects of this aurora include its sweeping arc-like shape and its stark definition. Lake Storsjön is seen in the foreground, while several familiar constellations and the star Polaris are visible through the aurora, far in the background. Coincidently, the aurora appears to avoid the Moon visible on the lower left. The aurora appeared a day after a large hole opened in the Sun's corona allowing particularly energetic particles to flow out into the Solar System. The green color of the aurora is caused by oxygen atoms recombining with ambient electrons high in the Earth's atmosphere.
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[Credit and Copyright: Göran Strand]
well, i’ve managed to get behind, then almost caught up, my apologies for doing or having to do either.
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I would so much like to travel there, and see the northern lights.
Planning to go to Norway this fall, would love to see this.
Having never seen the auroras, do they move, or are they still?............................
I never realized that an aurora would make the blue lines between the stars show up, and the constellation names.
;’)
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