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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Aurora Australis and the International Space Station
NASA ^ | 13 Sep, 2024 | Image Credit: NASA, ISS Expedition 71

Posted on 09/13/2024 11:33:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: This snapshot from the International Space Station was taken on August 11 while orbiting about 430 kilometers above the Indian Ocean, Southern Hemisphere, planet Earth. The spectacular view looks south and east, down toward the planet's horizon and through red and green curtains of aurora australis. The auroral glow is caused by emission from excited oxygen atoms in the extremely rarefied upper atmosphere still present at the level of the orbiting outpost. Green emission from atomic oxygen dominates this scene at altitudes of 100 to 250 kilometers, while red emission from atomic oxygen can extend as high as 500 kilometers altitude. Beyond the glow of these southern lights, this view from low Earth orbit reveals the starry sky from a southern hemisphere perspective. Stars in Orion's belt and the Orion Nebula are near the Earth's limb just left of center. Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major and brightest star in planet Earth's night is above center along the right edge of the southern orbital skyscape.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 09/13/2024 11:33:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 09/13/2024 11:33:52 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

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔

3 posted on 09/13/2024 11:34:30 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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Are two guys still Stranded There?
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Science!


4 posted on 09/13/2024 11:36:58 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: MtnClimber

Wow.


5 posted on 09/13/2024 11:38:08 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Big Red Badger

I think it is a man and a woman that are still stranded there, but what do I know? I’m not a biologist.


6 posted on 09/13/2024 11:43:58 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 sure if I was up there, you couldn’t tear me away from a window! I would have my nose pressed against the glass like a little kid….🤩


7 posted on 09/13/2024 11:52:55 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Big Red Badger

No ... nobody is “stranded” there.

You know better ...


8 posted on 09/13/2024 11:54:50 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MtnClimber
I think it is a man and a woman that are still stranded there

Wonder how to fend off ennui in those circmstances?

Pinochle? Heh. :-)

9 posted on 09/13/2024 12:03:53 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
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To: NorthMountain; MtnClimber

Can’t follow every detail anymore——
I’m living in a “Who’s on First ?” World
Nowadays it’s my ‘SAFE SPACE.’
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Forgive my Old Tlmers disease.


10 posted on 09/13/2024 12:42:11 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Big Red Badger
There are two that should have come back.

I don't know how many are there in total.

The ones who should have come back are a man and a woman. I was just making a Katenji Brown Jackson (sp?) joke there.

11 posted on 09/13/2024 12:51:06 PM 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 recognize the one on the right as being Geddy Lee, former lead singer of the band Rush. Who's the woman on the left?
12 posted on 09/13/2024 3:24:21 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Unlikely much hanky-panky unless that guy...............


13 posted on 09/13/2024 10:41:28 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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