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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Jul 4, 2015 -- Aurora Australis

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Jul 4, 2015


Aurora Australis
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Schwarz (South Pole Station)

Courtesy of http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Not fireworks, these intense shimmering lights still danced across Earth's night skies late last month, seen here above the planet's geographic south pole. The stunning auroral displays were triggered as a coronal mass ejection blasted from the Sun days earlier impacted the magnetosphere, beginning a widespread geomagnetic storm. The six fisheye panels were recorded with digital camera and battery in a heated box to guard against -90 degree F ambient temperatures of the long winter night. Around the horizon are south pole astronomical observatories, while beyond the Aurora Australis stretch the stars of the southern Milky Way.
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