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Moon, northern lights over houses in my street
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One of the reddest auroras I’ve ever seen…
If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄
The aftermath of an X-class flare on the Sun.
Do you like seeing auroras in a timely manner?
The FY26 budget proposal is planning on decommissioning our satellite systems at L1 (ACE / DSCOVR) making us completely blind to incoming space weather from the Sun until SWFL becomes operational. Please call your representatives.
So, I was reading the FY26 President's Budget for NASA, and the DSCOVR, ACE, and WIND missions are proposed to be canceled. Sooo where are we going to get solar wind data?
Read more: planetary.org/articles/nas...
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#heliophysics
Incredible aurora seen from space.
I figured out how to do the northern lights. Sort of.
#art #watercolors #tradart
#auroraborealis #northenlights
The graphic design on this poster 🧑🍳🤌💋
I hope these people end up like this grandma
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Saturn - nIR False Color - January 11 2011 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2nmsEhe
There are multiple filaments (arches of cool plasma in the Sun’s atmosphere), currently on the Sun. Some are smaller, but others span HUGE longitudinal distances. If any of these erupt whilst facing Earth, we’d see strong geomagnetic storms as a result. Let’s wait and see!
Heads up aurora chasers! We could see shows down to mid-latitudes this week as a coronal hole becomes geoeffective around June 25. I will update further today with more details.
#heliophysics
Our Sun provides the light and heat that energizes our plants, our solar panels and our weather, among other things. But its influence stretches over the horizon into our nights, as well. As our nearest star, the Sun bathes Earth in a steady stream of energetic particles, magnetic fields and radiation that can stimulate our atmosphere and light up the night sky, like the aurora borealis, or northern lights. At 3:46 a.m. Eastern Tme on April 21, 2018, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of the aurora borealis over North America. The nighttime image was made possible through VIIRS "day-night band," which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as airglow, auroras, wildfires, city lights, and reflected moonlight. In this image, the sensor detected the visible light emissions that occurred as energetic particles from Earths magnetosphere rained down into the oxygen and nitrogen gases of the upper atmosphere. Around April 19, the Sun spewed a potent stream of particles and electromagnetic energy—a strong blast of solar wind—that arrived at Earth a few days later and stirred up our magnetic field. The interaction between these solar emissions and our magnetic field causes the particles already trapped around the planet to be accelerated down toward the atmosphere. The collisions make the auroral light. Image credit: NASA/...
Behold the Northern Lights - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/26wDexq
On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time
A once-in-a-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply
What a crazy night, we went into it not expecting much since the solar storm was forecast for after sunrise in central Europe. However, before the sun had even set, I got the alert that the first CME had impacted Earth, so the chances immediately looked a lot better. What then unfolded surpassed even our wildest expectations. We ended up driving to this satellite ground station south of Ammersee in southern Bavaria and just when we arrived we spotted the first diffuse pillars north of us. We experienced three waves of incredibly strong Aurora, especially for our rather Southern latitude. During the second wave we saw individual pulsating filaments dancing over our heads. What a breathtaking experience! Many thanks to Christopher for accompanying me on this adventure, Max for being an all round great guy, and Sebastian who lent me his wide angle lenses that made these shots possible.
Aurora over Raisting Earth Station - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pQvMHo
One of the most beautiful pictures of Jupiter ever taken.
Credits: NASA
The clearest image of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.
1. Image of the Sun during an artificial solar eclipse. Against a black background, the Sun’s bright body is covered by a black disc, and light green hair-like tendrils extend from the black disc in all directions. Brighter green light peeks from behind the black disc’s edge, slowly fading towards the outer edges of the image. This image, captured in the visible light spectrum, shows the solar corona similarly to how a human eye would see it during an eclipse through a green filter. The hair-like structures were revealed using a specialised image processing algorithm. CREDIT: ESA/Proba-3/ASPIICS/WOW algorithm 2. Image of the Sun taken during an artificial solar eclipse. Against a black background, the Sun’s bright body is covered by a black disc, and blue-green hair-like tendrils extend from the black disc in all directions. Brighter green light peeks from behind the black disc’s edge, slowly fading towards the outer edges of the image. This image shows observations in the coronal green line – a spectral line emitted by iron atoms that lost half of their electrons due to extremely high temperatures. This allows us to see the hottest contents of the corona, at up to 2 million degrees. On the upper left side, a hot loop can be seen extending from the Sun’s surface into the corona, a structure which generally appears following a solar flare. CREDIT: ESA/Proba-3/ASPIICS
Here are the first test images of the Sun’s Corona taken by the ESA Proba-3 mission.
The images were taken by the twin Proba-3 spacecraft, flying 150 m apart to create artificial total solar eclipses using the 1.4 m disc on the Occulter spacecraft.
More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1146...
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Wow - one of the largest coronal holes of solar cycle 25! This coronal hole has survived for over NINE MONTHS, one of the most persistent coronal holes I have ever seen. We are seeing the high speed solar wind at Earth now which may intensify in the coming days.
#heliophysics
A tall pine tree silhouetted against pillars of purple and green northern lights.
Rescued from the reject pile with the help of a nice tall and narrow crop.
June 3, 2025 – 12:44am
#aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #photography
The Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) has been primarily tipped south the past few hours. Minor (G1) geomagnetic storming is currently being observed at higher latitudes. SolarHam.com
Viewing the Sun's poles in the next years with @science.esa.int #SolarOrbiter is of massive importance for a better understanding and prediction of the solar cycle and to unravel how #solarstorms travel away from the Sun. This is a major milestone for this mission!
The entire month of May 2025 in the Sun’s atmosphere. Although the Sun produced a few large solar flares, sunspot numbers were the lowest we’ve seen since August 2022. We are likely now slowly moving towards solar minimum, but we still expect large flares throughout this decline!
When people say “The aurora doesn’t move, right? I’ve never seen it ‘dance’ like you keep saying,” I just show them this video…
A potential active region off the northeast limb has been flinging plasma into space the past 24 hours. If a sunspot region is responsible, it should begin to rotate into view during the next 24-48 hours. Image by GOES SUVI.
Amazing first #solarstorm movies by the @punch-mission.bsky.social, of eruptions in early June 2025. 😮
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
