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Colorful Aurora over New Zealand

By |2024-10-16T09:09:14-04:00October 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Sometimes the night sky is full of surprises. Take the sky over Lindis Pass, South Island, New Zealand one-night last week. Instead of a typically calm night sky filled with constant stars, a busy and dynamic night sky appeared. Suddenly visible were pervasive red aurora, green picket-fence aurora, a red [...]

Colorful Stars and Clouds near Rho Ophiuchi

By |2024-06-11T09:09:44-04:00June 11th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why is the sky near Antares and Rho Ophiuchi so colorful, yet dusty? The colors result from a mixture of objects and processes. Fine dust -- illuminated by starlight -- produces blue reflection nebulae. Gaseous clouds whose atoms are excited by ultraviolet starlight produce reddish emission nebulae. Backlit dust clouds [...]

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