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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Aurora by Moonlight
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 12 Feb, 2022 | Image Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)

Posted on 02/12/2022 2:00:15 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: The ice was singing as light from a bright gibbous Moon cast shadows across this frozen lake, about 20 kilometers north of Stockholm, Sweden, planet Earth. In the alluring night skyscape captured on February 10, shimmering auroral curtains of light dance in the evening sky. On that northern night nature's performance included the auroral displays fostered by a minor geomagnetic storm. Stormy space weather was the result of a coronal mass ejection, erupting from a solar prominence days earlier and brushing our fair planet's magnetosphere.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 02/12/2022 2:00:15 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 02/12/2022 2:00:46 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 02/12/2022 2:01:31 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Beautiful🥰 photo. Love the description ❤️


4 posted on 02/12/2022 2:11:32 PM PST by Beowulf9
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I like the ‘singing ice’.


5 posted on 02/12/2022 2:18:48 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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