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Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies,
TWAN)
Explanation:
On the night of
March 17/18
this umbrella of northern lights
unfolded over backyards in Vallentuna, Sweden about
30 kilometers north of Stockholm.
A result of the strongest geomagnetic storm of this solar cycle,
auroral displays were captured on that night
from back
and front yards at even lower latitudes,
including sightings in the midwestern United States.
A boon for
aurora hunting skywatchers, the
space storm began building when a
coronal mass ejection,
launched by solar activity
some two days earlier, struck planet Earth's magnetosphere.
So what's the name of the backyard observatory on the right of the wide
field view?
That's Carpe Noctem
Observatory, of course.
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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 - geomagnetic storm
Publications with words: aurora - geomagnetic storm
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