2024 October 13 - Aurora Timelapse over Italian Alps
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
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In today's image, we see a timeless of the aurora. This compresses an hour in to just about 8 seconds. We can see the red glow due to oxygen atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere. The atoms glow because of the recent solar flare which sent charged particles toward Earth.
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