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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Северное сияние в лунном свете http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1811475/eng |
Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén
(Clear Skies,
TWAN)
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.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.