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Credit & Copyright: Robert Schwarz
(South Pole Station)
Explanation:
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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