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Flowing Auroras Over Norway

Explanation: Have you ever seen an aurora? Auroras are occurring again with increasing frequency. With the Sun being unusually dormant over the past three years, the amount of Sun-induced auroras has also been unusually low. More recently, however, our Sun has become increasingly active and exhibiting a greater abundance of sunspots, flares, and coronal mass ejections. Solar activity like this typically expels charged particles into the Solar System, some of which may trigger Earthly auroras. As this year unfolded, the above timelapse displays of picturesque auroras were captured above Tromsø, Norway. Curtains of auroral light, usually green, flow, shimmer and dance as energetic particles fall toward the Earth and ionize air molecules high up in the Earth's atmosphere. With solar maximum still in the future, there may be opportunities to see spectacular aurora personally over the next three years.

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Breathtaking Recent Aurora Images from Earth and Space
http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 29&t=22061

A classic photo of auroras, but very nice.
Greetings
César

You have to fullscreen that and watch it in HD!

Also good to see the earth's roation as the starfield moves in the background

The vimeo link is really worth watching. Thanks APOD!

mexhunter wrote:A classic photo of auroras, but very nice.
Greetings
César

I'm clueless!!
Last night saw the APOD and said it was a classic photography, today I discover an excellent Vimeo.
My apologies to the authors.
Greetings
César

Is is still my birthday? Nov 23. My twin and I celebrated last night. Nov 23.

This


is


absolutely


breathtaking!

^

Word.

Beautiful! Thank-you for sharing this.

Wonderful sight & also noticed several fast moving streaks in sky .Saw a unusal streak going from the 5,oclock position to 1 oclock Wondering who else saw it & would like to know what people think it might be.

dasher251 wrote:Wonderful sight & also noticed several fast moving streaks in sky .Saw a unusal streak going from the 5,oclock position to 1 oclock Wondering who else saw it & would like to know what people think it might be.

Small fuzzy streak actually appears at the 1 or 2 o'clock position goin towards the horizon at the 5 or 6 o,clock position

No Flash, no Javascript. I saw nothing.

D. B. Cooper wrote:No Flash, no Javascript. I saw nothing.

No surprise.

If you just blindly disable Flash and JS, you lock yourself out of much of what the Internet offers. And the number of pages depending on one or both continues to grow. There are ways to limit the more undesirable aspects of both without completely disabling them.

Once, when I was eight or nine, in Chicago, fairly far south for aurorae. It was absolutely incredible, one of my favorite childhood memories, standing in the driveway with my mom and dad, already obsessed with space and science... my mind was blown. Part of me wants to see more, many, many more, and part of me loves the memory enough to keep it singular...

Hi!

"Flowing Auroras Over Norway" is such a wonderful picture! I love it
I dream of seeing Northern Lights (or Southern Lights) in reality, one day Perhaps i will.
Anyway, i am afraid of what i could really see. Indeed, after having made so beautiful dreams, thanks to this picture, i am expecting to see, one day, a sky as beautiful as this one... But could i ? It might be so rare to admire such an extraordinary view
Have a very nice day!

Céline

Simply stunning, breathtaking videography. Doubly so for this southern boy who has never seen an aurora display in person.

I love that we have modern hardware that can capture such noiseless, clean imagery, and that there are such talented people out there making good use of it.

-Noel