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Credit & Copyright: John Chumack
Explanation:
Sometimes it is hard to believe what you see in the sky.
While leading his annual
aurora tour last month near
Fairbanks in central
Alaska, astrophotographer
John Chumack and his company saw a
most unusual aurora.
This bright aurora appeared to change into the shape of a
jumping dog, complete with a curly
tail.
He was able to capture the fleeting natural apparition in the
above image with a 15-second exposure through a wide-angle lens.
By coincidence, he also captured a background sky filled with familiar highlights.
Planets visible include bright
Jupiter through the dog's front legs and
reddish Mars below the dog's
hind legs.
Stars visible include the
Big Dipper stars above the dog's midsection and reddish
Betelgeuse shining on the far right.
This dog would not be following him home, however, and within a few minutes
morphed into other shapes before the
geomagnetic storm
particles that created it shifted to strike the Earth elsewhere.
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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