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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Red Aurora over Poland
NASA ^ | 12 May, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Mariusz Durlej

Posted on 05/12/2024 11:56:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Northern lights don't usually reach this far south. Magnetic chaos in the Sun's huge Active Region 3664, however, produced a surface explosion that sent a burst of electrons, protons, and more massive, charged nuclei into the Solar System. A few days later, that coronal mass ejection (CME) impacted the Earth and triggered auroras that are being reported unusually far from our planet's north and south poles. The free sky show might not be over -- the sunspot rich AR3664 has ejected even more CMEs that might also impact the Earth tonight or tomorrow. That active region is now near the Sun's edge, though, and will soon be rotating away from the Earth. Pictured, a red and rayed aurora was captured in a single 6-second exposure from Racibórz, Poland early last night. The photographer's friend, seeing an aurora for the first time, is visible in the distance also taking images of the beautifully colorful nighttime sky.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 05/12/2024 11:56:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 05/12/2024 11:56:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 05/12/2024 11:57:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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I’m in NC and never did I think I would see what I saw two nights ago. I was too stupified to take a single pic. I don’t know if the sky was pink, fuchsia or magenta, but it was an awesome sight down here on the farm.


4 posted on 05/12/2024 12:03:31 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MtnClimber

Northern lights are quite common at 50 degrees north, about the latitude of southern Poland. Canada-US border is mostly 49ºN.


5 posted on 05/12/2024 12:14:29 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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Hell, we had the aurora here in Southern California yesterday! Unfortunately, we had a cloud cover - that and it was early morning - could be seen as far south as San Diego:

Southern California and San Francisco:

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6 posted on 05/12/2024 12:14:58 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Wow.

I hope it’s a sign from the Almighty.


7 posted on 05/12/2024 12:25:00 PM PDT by xoxox
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40 days after the eclipse, right by the Ascension...just before a Fatima day (May 13).

We’ll see what happens.


8 posted on 05/12/2024 12:44:27 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: MtnClimber

Nice gallery @ the link @ your link!

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9 posted on 05/12/2024 12:52:07 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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I clicked this link and I now suspect facebook will track me back to Free Republic.

Evil world we have don’t we.


10 posted on 05/12/2024 12:55:33 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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I’d like to see what those auroras looked like from space!


11 posted on 05/12/2024 12:56:56 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: MtnClimber

Saw a blood red one in Northern Texas just south of the Red River about 20 years ago. It lasted just a few seconds. There was three of us heading out to duck hunt so we were sober and up early.


12 posted on 05/12/2024 1:55:40 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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Just beautiful. Such violence 93 million miles away creating such beauty and awe here.


13 posted on 05/12/2024 1:56:44 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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I’m glad SOMEONE in the SF Bay Area saw it!

I was up until 10:30 pm Friday night, looking north, and didn’t see anything.


14 posted on 05/12/2024 3:07:54 PM PDT by thecodont
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