by APOD Robot » Tue Mar 22, 2022 4:05 am
A Whale of an Aurora over Swedish Forest
Explanation: What's that in the sky? An aurora. A large
coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun earlier this month,
throwing a cloud of fast-moving electrons, protons, and ions
toward the Earth. Part of this cloud impacted our Earth's
magnetosphere and, bolstered by a sudden gap, resulted in
spectacular auroras being seen at some high northern latitudes.
Featured here is a particularly photogenic
auroral corona captured above a forest in
Sweden from a scenic perch overlooking the city of
Ãstersund. To some,
this shimmering green
glow of recombining atmospheric
oxygen might appear like a large
whale, but feel free to
share what it looks like to you. The unusually
quiet Sun of the past few years has now passed. As our Sun now approaches a
solar maximum in its
11-year solar magnetic cycle,
dramatic auroras like
this are sure to continue.
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