Astronomy Picture of the Day - Florida Northern Lights

NASA ^ | 14 Nov, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Samil Cabrera

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: Northern lights have come to Florida skies. In fact, the brilliant streak of a Northern Taurid meteor flashes through the starry night sky above the beach in this sea and skyscape, captured from Shired Island, Florida on November 11. Meteors from the annual Northern Taurid meteor shower are expected this time of year. But the digital camera exposure also records the shimmering glow of aurora, a phenomenon more often seen from our fair planet's higher geographical latitudes. Also known as aurora borealis, these northern lights are part of recent, wide spread auroral activity caused by strong geomagnetic storms. In the last few days, stormy spaceweather has been triggered by multiple Earth impacting coronal mass ejections and intense solar activity.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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[Red Badger]

Dixie County, not far from here, in the ‘arm pit’ of Florida................

[Diogenesis]

[Red Badger]

[metmom]

And here we are in NH and it was CLOUDY the entire time!

BOO!!!!!!

[No name given]

Wow.

[No name given]

Amazing.

[Nateman]

Did you notice they have filled up the shutdown days?

[telescope115]

Thanks for posting archived APsOD during the shutdown, much appreciated !🙂👍

[MtnClimber]

No problem. Now I need to post 2X per day for a while to catch up.