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01-24-2012, 03:47 PM
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January Aurora Over Norway (Incerdible photo from APD. *Large*)
Explanation: What's that in the sky? An aurora. A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun five days ago, throwing a cloud of fast moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth. Although most of this cloud passed above the Earth, some of it impacted our Earth's magnetosphere and resulted in spectacular auroras being seen at high northern latitudes. Pictured above is a particularly photogenic auroral corona captured last night above Grotfjord, Norway. To some, this shimmering green glow of recombining atmospheric oxygen might appear as a large eagle, but feel free to share what it looks like to you. This round of solar activity is not yet over -- a new and even more powerful solar flare occurred yesterday that might provide more amazing aurora as soon as tonight. 
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01-26-2012, 12:24 PM
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We're getting some of this tomorrow and over the weekend, it won't be as spectacular here, but the electo-magnetic charge snapping over the poles and resonating below into our visual frequency is nifty to behold!
I'll try and get a photo/video.
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01-26-2012, 01:29 PM
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^ A friend of mine got some pics of it the other day in Donegal!
Awesome pic 
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01-26-2012, 01:31 PM
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So beautiful!!!
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01-26-2012, 02:21 PM
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Over Shetland
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01-26-2012, 03:23 PM
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Y'all suck so bad. A few months ago there was a night in the U.S. where they could be seen almost down to 30° N, but of course I have city lights to my north, so I saw jack. I'd pay good money to see these at least once in my life (though probably not the cost of a flight to Norway, lol).
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01-27-2012, 10:35 AM
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That looks like a bald eagle in the OP's picture.
We don't normally get them as far south as Ohio very often, but it has happened a lot lately. I am at about 38degN latitude.
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01-27-2012, 10:42 AM
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Guess who just found a new background for his PC?
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01-27-2012, 01:52 PM
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i'd love to be staring at that in real time outside with an ipod SA DAMN YOUUUUUUU
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