Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:06 pm
by ksiaze
I see a faint image of Leonardo di Vinci inside the brightest part of the aurora. At least an old man with heavy shadowy brows and a prominent nose and heavy beard. Amazing what your mind can do!
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:12 pm
by PhantoMime
A mighty phoenix of course!
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:39 pm
by Dilmeran
İ think this looks like a gentle ghost.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:00 pm
by EchoesOfNite
I live in the Palmetto State, and it kinda looks like a palmetto tree to those of us in SC.
However - it mainly looks magnificent!
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:20 pm
by Guest
I know someone has already said it but I think it looks like a dragon that's come to usher in the new year!
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:30 pm
by orin stepanek
To me; it looks like a creature with hair growing out of it's mouth and nose!
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:34 pm
by guest()()()
blackdog wrote:It looks like person bursting through the surface of a body of water.
Or a high speed photo of taking a water balloon to the face - looks like a profile facing up to the left
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:58 pm
by Elaine Weisburg
What a beautiful image! I always start the day with APOD. The bright center of the January aurora over Norway looks to me like a palm tree in a hurricane.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:07 pm
by aquapunct
I see a luminescent Portuguese Man O'War-spectacular!
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:11 pm
by Geri
A daffodil.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:47 pm
by chanio
Question: Is it possible that by drawing an imaginary line passing through the center of the Earth and through the center of this dense mass of light would point us to the Sun? Is it possible that we are seeing the point where the Sun's material is just touching our planet before it expands through it?
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:49 pm
by pete gerard
It looks like a great cosmic upside-down SPLASH.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:04 pm
by jinger
from A Boy Named Charlie Brown Lucy: Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton. I could just lie here all day and watch them drift by. If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud's formations. What do you think you see, Linus? Linus: Well, those clouds up there look to me look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean. Linus: That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor. Linus: And that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the Stoning of Stephen. I can see the Apostle Paul standing there to one side. Lucy: Uh huh. That's very good. What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown? Charlie Brown: Well... I was going to say I saw a duckie and a horsie, but I changed my mind.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:14 pm
by nonemorenegative
It does indeed look like a bird of some type, but more like the print left by a poor bird who's flown into a window - anyone who's seen a pigeon or even an owl print on their window will agree
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:15 pm
by Dr Mikey
You are all incorrect. It is actually a human hand with an adult female California Condor puppet on it. Pretty obvious.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:24 pm
by bystander
chanio wrote: Is it possible that by drawing an imaginary line passing through the center of the Earth and through the center of this dense mass of light would point us to the Sun? Is it possible that we are seeing the point where the Sun's material is just touching our planet before it expands through it?
When solar plasma is ejected from the Sun during a magnetic event like a flare or a coronal mass ejection, the plasma travels outward along with the solar wind and when it encounters Earth’s magnetic field, it travels down the field lines that connect at the poles. Atoms in the plasma interacts with atoms in Earth’s upper atmosphere, creating colorful dancing lights.
Wiki: Auroral mechanism wrote:Auroras are associated with the solar wind, a flow of ions continuously flowing outward from the Sun. The Earth's magnetic field traps these particles, many of which travel toward the poles where they are accelerated toward Earth. Collisions between these ions and atmospheric atoms and molecules cause energy releases in the form of auroras appearing in large circles around the poles.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:28 pm
by Montana
Reminds me of a Lorax Tree from the world of Dr. Suess! Not the typical circle tree, but a tree that is waving happily in the wind!
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:38 pm
by Ioo
It's definitely a Dragon, since yesterday was Chinese New Year and it's the Year of the Dragon.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:39 pm
by MSSTORE
Phoenix- a mythical bird
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:59 pm
by Jane
This event reminds me of the Pheonix rising... beautiful.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:04 pm
by isishazel
Having just seen soaring Great Blue Herons on Sunday, it looks like a Great Green Heron to me!
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:14 pm
by Utahn
I think it most resembles a tall, snow-covered peak with wind-blown snow being whipped off the top.
Re: APOD: January Aurora Over Norway (2012 Jan 24)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:28 pm
by ozozo
It looks like a snowy mountain top.
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