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Credit & Copyright: Xuecheng Liu &
Yuxuan Liu
Explanation:
It seemed like night, but part of the sky glowed purple.
It was the now famous night of May 10, 2024, when
people over much of the world reported beautiful aurora-filled skies.
The featured image was captured this night during early morning hours from
Arlington,
Wisconsin,
USA.
The panorama is a composite of several 6-second exposures covering
two thirds of the visible sky, with
north in the center,
and processed to heighten the colors and remove electrical wires.
The photographer (in the foreground) reported that the
aurora
appeared to flow from a point overhead but
illuminated the sky only toward the
north.
The aurora's energetic particles originated from
CMEs
ejected from our Sun over sunspot
AR 6443 a few days before.
This large active region
rotated to the far side of the Sun last week, but
may well survive to
rotate back toward the
Earth next week.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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