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Keywords: aurora, space weather
![Южные полярные сияния и свечение космического челнока](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/07/0001192754/aurora1_sts39_big.preview.jpg)
21.02.1998
A background of distant stars, sinuous and spiky bands of Southern Lights (Aurora Australis), and the faint glow of charged plasma (ionized atomic gas) surrounding the Space Shuttle Discovery's engines give this photo from the STS-39 mission an eerie, otherworldly look.
![Полярное сияние над Антарктикой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/03/20/0001175382/spaurora1_schwarz.preview.jpg)
19.03.2002
Looking out from the bottom of the world, strange and spectacular sights are sometimes observed. Such was the case during the long Antarctic night of 1998, as awesome aurora sub-storms were photographed above scientific outposts. Visible in the left foreground of the above photograph is the Martin A.
![Зеленая лента в небе над Миссури](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/29/0001201318/Aurora_winter2004n_1.preview.jpg)
11.11.2004
The critics rave - "Amazing!", "Unbelievable!", "The best I've ever seen!" They aren't talking about a movie, though. Instead, even casual sky critics are remarking on November's stunning auroral displays, visible with surprising intensities well beyond the confines of high latitudes where auroral activity is normally observed.
![Полярное сияние над Висконсином](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/19/0001201235/aurora_venhaus.preview.jpg)
16.11.2004
The auroral displays of the past week are being reported as some of the most beautiful in memory. In particular, impressive auroral bands fanned out over much of eastern North America after sunset on November 8.
![Полярное сияние в небе над Колорадо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/30/0001194569/aurora031029b_westlake_c1.preview.jpg)
29.10.2003
Vivid auroral displays were triggered by a cloud of high energy particles from the Sun that collided with planet Earth's magnetosphere yesterday, October 29, at about 06:30 Universal Time. The collision...
![Северное сияние над облаками](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/10/0001192898/auroraclouds_cantin.preview.jpg)
10.09.2003
Aurorae usually occur high above the clouds. The auroral glow is created when fast-moving particles ejected from the Sun impact air molecules high in the Earth's atmosphere. An oxygen molecule, for example, will glow in a green light when reacquiring an electron lost during a collision with a solar particle.
![Красная корона северного сияния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/01/16/0001174225/aurora_clausen_big.preview.jpg)
14.01.2002
Few auroras show this level of detail. This unusual display of an auroral corona occurred on Earth three days after an unusual solar event -- the fifth most powerful explosion yet recorded on the Sun. An X14-class solar flare on April 15 sent a tremendous Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) into the Solar System.
![Все небо в многоцветной короне полярного сияния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/10/0001201154/aurora_moussette.preview.jpg)
8.11.2004
On some nights the sky is the most interesting show in town. This fisheye picture captures a particularly active and colorful auroral corona that occurred two days ago over l'Observatoire de la Decouverte in Val Belair near Quebec, Canada.
![Полярное сияние над полуостровом Бэнкс](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/05/17/0001930190/DSC_6363Panorama-2_600.preview.jpg)
16.05.2024
This well-composed composite panoramic view looks due south from Banks Peninsula near Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island. The base of a tower-like rocky sea stack is awash in the foreground, with stars of the Southern Cross at the top of the frame and planet Earth's south celestial pole near center.
![Северное сияние над Арктическим Хенджем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/27/0001893620/ArcticHenge_Letelier_960.preview.jpg)
26.03.2023
Reports of powerful solar flares started a seven-hour quest north to capture modern monuments against an aurora-filled sky. The peaks of iconic Arctic Henge in Raufarhцfn in northern Iceland were already aligned with the stars: some are lined up toward the exact north from one side and toward exact south from the other.
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