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Aurora Australis and the International Space Station

By |2024-09-13T09:09:06-04:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This snapshot from the International Space Station was taken on August 11 while orbiting about 430 kilometers above the Indian Ocean, Southern Hemisphere, planet Earth. The spectacular view looks south and east, down toward the planet's horizon and through red and green curtains of aurora australis. The auroral glow is [...]

Meteors and Aurora over Germany

By |2024-08-14T09:09:15-04:00August 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This was an unusual night. For one thing, the night sky of August 11 and 12, earlier this week, occurred near the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. Therefore, meteors streaked across the dark night as small bits cast off from Comet Swift-Tuttle came crashing into the Earth's atmosphere. [...]

Timelapse: Aurora, SAR, and the Milky Way

By |2024-06-26T09:09:14-04:00June 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happening in the sky this unusual night? Most striking in the featured 4.5-hour 360-degree panoramic video, perhaps, is the pink and purple aurora. That's because this night, encompassing May 11, was famous for its auroral skies around the world. As the night progresses, auroral bands shimmer, the central band [...]

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