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Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand
Explanation:
This sky looked delicious.
Double auroral ovals were captured above the town lights
of
æstersund,
Sweden, last week.
Pictured above, the green ovals occurred lower to the ground than
violet
aurora rays above, making the whole display look a bit like a
cupcake.
To top it off, far in the distance, the
central band or our
Milky Way Galaxy
slants down from the upper left.
The auroras were caused by our Sun ejecting
plasma
clouds into the Solar System just a few days before, ionized particles that
subsequently impacted the
magnetosphere of the Earth.
Aurora
displays may continue this week as an
active sunspot group rotated into view just a few days
ago.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: aurora - Milky Way - Sweden
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See also:
- Aurora Australis and the International Space Station
- APOD: 2024 August 4 Á Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
- APOD: 2024 July 29 Á Milky Way over Uluru
- APOD: 2024 July 22 Á Chamaeleon Dark Nebulas
- APOD: 2024 June 26 Á Timelapse: Aurora, SAR, and the Milky Way
- APOD: 2024 June 12 Á Aurora over Karkonosze Mountains
- APOD: 2024 May 29 Á Stairway to the Milky Way