An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way ToppingExplanation: This sky looked delicious. Double auroral ovals were captured above the town lights of Östersund, Sweden, last week. Pictured above, the green ovals occurred lower to the ground than violet aurora rays above, making the whole display look a bit like a cupcake. To top it off, far in the distance, the central band or our Milky Way Galaxy slants down from the upper left. The auroras were caused by our Sun ejecting plasma clouds into the Solar System just a few days before, ionized particles that subsequently impacted the magnetosphere of the Earth. Aurora displays may continue this week as an active sunspot group rotated into view just a few days ago.
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. In its information in the blog in Goran's website it states "It shows a double auroral oval over the city lights of Östersund and the village of Ås". The name of the village intrigued me, being such a very short name. In information that I found in Wikipedia it states "Ås (from Old Norse áss 'ridge') is a locality situated in Krokom Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden with 1,218 inhabitants in 2010". I have not checked but such short names may be uncommon.
