Monday, January 10, 2011

APOD 2.5

Flowing Auroras Over Norway
On November 24th 2010, a video of the aurora over Norway was posted onto the Astronomy "Picture" of the Day site.  This video really impressed me personally.  I did not realize the amount of movement that the aurora experiences in the night sky: it's very fascinating and extraordinarily beautiful.  The differentiation of shape and birghtness makes the aurora a spectactular entertaining feature in the night sky and places it self in the top 3 things I personally want to see first hand.  The post explains that recently our sun has become extremely active and produces things like this every now and again.

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