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A stop motion based video about the northern lights. The video is shot in the northern parts of Norway, Finland and Sweden during autumn 2011, winter and spring 2012.
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Aurora over Hvitserkur in Iceland
Artistic Aurora
Photograph by Tommy Eliassen, My Shot
Northern lights paint the sky in a picture taken from Norway in 2011 and recently submitted to National Geographic’s My Shot.
The late October sky show had been triggered by an intense geomagnetic storm that spawned auroras across the Northern Hemisphere—including blood-red auroras seen in the U.S. South (pictures).
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Aurora Borealis, Acadia National Park, Maine
Photograph by Michael Melford, National GeographicNature’s light show—aurora borealis—bathes Maine’s Acadia National Park in a pink glow. These dazzling patterns in nature, called aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere, are created when charged particles outside the Earth’s atmosphere collide with atoms in the upper atmosphere, producing a glowing display of curtains, arcs, and bands stretching across the sky.
![[ … solar wind ] by Raymond Hoffmann](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lufh6ieifC1r2pya0o1_r1_1280.jpg)
[ … solar wind ] by Raymond Hoffmann
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crownedroseThanks to Tumblr Campbench here are more web sites:
The three best sites for forecasts, alerts, and current Aurora conditions:
- http://www.spaceweather.com/
- http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/
- http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/NorthAmerica/
Space Station’s Aurora Fly-Through
Credit: NASA
The International Space Station has a unique view of geomagnetic storms as it flys above the green and through the purple and red lights produced by oxygen atoms in various states of excitation. The science behind the phenomenon is examined.
A longstanding mystery about the origin of the energetic particles that cause Earth’s dramatic aurora displays may have been solved.
The electrons responsible for the auroras — also known as the northern and southern lights — are likely accelerated to incredible speeds in an active region of Earth’s magnetosphere, according to a new study. This region is 1,000 times larger than scientists had thought possible, providing enough volume to generate lots of the fast-moving electrons.
Hale-Bopp & Dancing Aurora
by David Malin
The Great Comet of 1997, Hale-Bopp, appears besides dancing aurora over forest landscape in Canada.
Image Credit: NASA
This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward:
Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). An optical illusion in the photo makes the atmospheric limb and light activity from Aurora Borealis appear “intertwined.”
Aurora & Milkyway above Australia
by Alex Cherney
