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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Colorful Aurora over New Zealand
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| 16 Oct, 2024
| Image Credit & Copyright: Tristian McDonald
Posted on 10/16/2024 12:44:51 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Sometimes the night sky is full of surprises. Take the sky over Lindis Pass, South Island, New Zealand one-night last week. Instead of a typically calm night sky filled with constant stars, a busy and dynamic night sky appeared. Suddenly visible were pervasive red aurora, green picket-fence aurora, a red SAR arc, a STEVE, a meteor, and the Moon. These outshone the center of our Milky Way Galaxy and both of its two satellite galaxies: the LMC and SMC. All of these were captured together on 28 exposures in five minutes, from which this panorama was composed. Auroras lit up many skies last week, as a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun unleashed a burst of particles toward our Earth that created colorful skies over latitudes usually too far from the Earth's poles to see them. More generally, night skies this month have other surprises, showing not only auroras -- but comets.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; aurora; nasa
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To: null and void
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posted on
10/16/2024 1:24:35 PM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
To: null and void
Ya shoulda used just white.
And I haven’t seen anyone do that in a LONG time.
Honestly, I missed it, it was so faint.
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posted on
10/16/2024 1:26:17 PM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
To: MurrietaMadman
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posted on
10/16/2024 1:26:54 PM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
To: metmom
I did, thanks
Transformational science strikes again...
...a supersonic river of hot atmospheric ions thought previously to be invisible...
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posted on
10/16/2024 1:33:48 PM PDT
by
MurrietaMadman
(The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
To: MtnClimber
Who...what is STEVE? SHEESH...does EVERYTHING have to be named?
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posted on
10/16/2024 1:34:09 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
To: metmom
Faint to give a faint chance of spotting it.
Maybe next time I’ll put random characters in whitesmoke as a faint attempt at a feint?
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posted on
10/16/2024 1:38:15 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government won't protect the vote, the border, the citizens, then why have that government?)
To: MtnClimber
I used to live in North Dakota, which had auroras. It pretty much looked like the short green stripes in photo. Rarely, we’d see a few more colors.
To: goodnesswins
STEVE - See my post #19. It is an acronym and I don’t fully believe the explanation of what the emission is theorized to be. But, that is the current guess.
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posted on
10/16/2024 1:41:13 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: metmom
I know the feeling. The approach of eclipses, auroras, comets, or meteor showers is a sure forecast for cloudy weather!
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posted on
10/16/2024 1:42:27 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: MtnClimber
Oh good. I thought it might be our new Galactic Overlord, Steve The Magnificent.
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posted on
10/16/2024 2:38:04 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Seruzawa
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posted on
10/16/2024 2:40:44 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
To: MtnClimber
That's a tough one for me:
Magenta candles with green flames?
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