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Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka,
TWAN
Explanation:
What does this aurora look like to you?
While braving the cold to watch the skies above northern
Canada
early one morning in 2013, a most unusual aurora appeared.
The aurora definitely appeared to be
shaped like something, but what?
Two ghostly possibilities recorded
by the astrophotographer were "witch" and "goddess of dawn",
but please
feel free to suggest your own
Halloween-enhanced impressions.
Regardless of fantastical
pareidolic interpretations,
the pictured aurora had a
typical green
color and was surely caused by the scientifically commonplace action of
high-energy particles from space interacting with
oxygen in
Earth's upper atmosphere.
In the image foreground, at the bottom, is a frozen
Alexandra Falls, while
evergreen trees
cross the middle.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: aurora
Publications with words: aurora
See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 8 Á Aurora around Saturns North Pole
- APOD: 2024 October 16 Á Colorful Aurora over New Zealand
- APOD: 2024 October 13 Á Aurora Timelapse Over Italian Alps
- Northern Lights, West Virginia
- Aurora Australis and the International Space Station
- APOD: 2024 June 26 Á Timelapse: Aurora, SAR, and the Milky Way
- APOD: 2024 June 12 Á Aurora over Karkonosze Mountains