by APOD Robot » Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:07 am
Colorful Aurora over New Zealand
Explanation: Sometimes the night sky is full of surprises. Take the sky over
Lindis Pass,
South Island,
New Zealand one-night last week. Instead of a typically
calm night sky filled with constant
stars, a busy and
dynamic night sky appeared. Suddenly visible were pervasive
red aurora, green
picket-fence aurora, a
red SAR arc, a
STEVE, a
meteor, and the
Moon. These outshone the center of our
Milky Way Galaxy and both of its two satellite galaxies: the
LMC and
SMC. All of these were captured together on 28 exposures in five minutes, from which this panorama was composed. Auroras
lit up many skies last week, as a
Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun unleashed a burst of particles toward our Earth that created colorful skies over
latitudes usually too far from the Earth's poles to see them. More generally, night skies this month have other surprises, showing not only auroras -- but
comets.
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