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NASA astronaut Jasmine Mogbeli has taken pictures of the green aurora from the International Space Station (ISS), Space reports. “The aurora borealis is spectacular from here” Jasmine Mogbeli Mogbeli saw the aurora on February 15. She noted that it was one of the highlights of her space mission. The Aurora Borealis occurs on Earth when […]
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has captured the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, in infrared light, says Space. The aurora borealis is formed as a result of a solar flare. This flare releases electrically charged particles […]
A recent NASA satellite photo taken over Canada provides a unique opportunity to look at the Aurora Borealis in infrared light. The image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the NASA/NOAA National Polar Orbiting Partnership satellite. The VIIRS instrument, sensitive to emission of faint light in a broad spectral […]
Unusual orange aurorae were spotted in the sky over Scotland during a geomagnetic storm on November 25. This is reported by Live Science. Earlier, an unusual orange glow was reported after a geomagnetic storm on October 19. Auroras occur when high-energy particles of wind energy excite gas molecules in the upper atmosphere. The excess energy […]
On the evening of Sunday, November 5, Ukrainians in some regions could see a rare phenomenon – the aurora borealis. This could have happened due to a geomagnetic storm Astronomer Volodymyr Kazhanov writes about this. “There was a powerful geomagnetic storm associated with the bombardment of our planet by a coronal mass ejection that occurred […]
There were several flares in the sun in late March. The strongest (M9.6 – medium intensity) occurred at 18:35 UTC on March 31. The source was a group of sunspots with high magnetic complexity (Region 2975). This was reported by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The charged particles emitted by the star reached […]