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Credit & Copyright: Gill Fry
Explanation:
Triggered by the impact
of a coronal mass ejection on New Year's eve,
a moderate geomagnetic storm brought a
celebration
of sky lights
to planet Earth's high latitudes yesterday.
In this New Year's nightscape,
the shimmering reddish curtains of
aurora australis
along a southern horizon are captured over
Morgiana, SW Victoria, Australia.
Of course, more permanent jewels of the southern skies
are on the scene.
The southern Milky Way, Alpha and Beta Centauri, and bright stars of
the Southern Cross are on the left.
In silhouette, branches of the large foreground tree stretch
across the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Large and Small
Magellanic clouds.
The bright star framed near the tips of tree branches at right
is Achernar.
Alpha star of the constellation Eridanus, Achernar is
sometimes known as the southern
end of the river.
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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