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Credit & Copyright: Jody Majko
Explanation:
What's happening above that city?
The city is
Winnipeg,
Canada, and the phenomenon is
aurora.
These past few months have been active ones for our
Sun, producing several
coronal mass ejections (CMEs) of
particles that have swept past our
Earth and caused many
spectacular auroras.
Specifically in this case, a
CME that occurred on October 9
impacted the Earth on October 11 and 12, causing nearly 12
hours of auroras.
The
above-pictured aurora had to be very bright to be seen
over the lights of Winnipeg, the city well below and in front of the
cascading atmospheric airglow.
Lights reflecting off of a slight
haze cause an unrelated glow that emanates
from some of the buildings.
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: aurora
Publications with words: aurora
See also:
- APOD: 2024 January 14 Á Dragon Aurora over Iceland
- APOD: 2024 January 3 Á A SAR Arc from New Zealand
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- The SAR and the Milky Way
- APOD: 2023 November 5 Á Creature Aurora Over Norway
- APOD: 2023 October 22 Á Ghost Aurora over Canada
- APOD: 2023 April 19 Á Auroral Storm over Lapland