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NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aurora borealis over Norway January 24, 2012
January Aurora Over Norway Image Credit & Copyright: Bjørn Jørgensen
Explanation: What's that in the sky? An aurora. A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun five days ago, throwing a cloud of fast moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth.
Although most of this cloud passed above the Earth, some of it impacted our Earth's magnetosphere and resulted in spectacular auroras being seen at high northern latitudes. Pictured above is a particularly photogenic auroral corona captured last night above Grotfjord, Norway.
To some, this shimmering green glow of recombining atmospheric oxygen might appear as a large eagle, but feel free to share what it looks like to you. This round of solar activity is not yet over -- a new and even more powerful solar flare occurred yesterday that might provide more amazing aurora as soon as tonight.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
23 posted on
01/24/2012 3:00:11 AM PST by
bd476
To: bd476
Looks like it was directly overhead.
24 posted on
01/24/2012 3:30:47 AM PST by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: bd476
I was chuckling to myself after seeing that one yesterday, thinking that it looks almost like an eagle. The beak isn’t quite there, but it’s close. And then the thought struck me... that given enough time of human history, one of these must have made a pretty reasonable facsimile of a face... and scared the devil out of someone.
26 posted on
01/24/2012 12:57:45 PM PST by
RingerSIX
(My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
To: bd476
Thank you so much for the beautiful photo!
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