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n-a-s-a: Aurorae over Planet Earth Image Credit : NASA, NOAA, GSFC, Suomi NPP, Earth Observatory holy **** that’s fantastic look! it’s my home state of Michigan!

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Aurorae over Planet Earth

Image Credit : NASA, NOAA, GSFC, Suomi NPP, Earth Observatory

  1. holy **** that’s fantastic
  2. look! it’s my home state of Michigan!

The Northern Lights, Yesterday

Good Harbor Bay, Michigan is above the 45th Parallel, meaning it’s closer to the North Pole than to the equator. In Michigan, the Northern Lights can be seen. One photographer living near Traverse City, Michigan decided make a short video of the lights from yesterday, July 16, 2012. They were incredible. Imagine how they must have looked in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, over in Maine, or in Alaska. Don’t forget to look up next time. via Space.com

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Soar Through a Sea of Aurora A stunning view of the shimmering northern lights was captured by the Expedition 30 crew as the International Space Station passed from over Wisconsin to southeastern Quebec on Jan. 25, 2012. The video (at the link) shows about five minutes of real time compressed into 30 seconds through the magic of time-lapse photography. keep reading

Soar Through a Sea of Aurora

A stunning view of the shimmering northern lights was captured by the Expedition 30 crew as the International Space Station passed from over Wisconsin to southeastern Quebec on Jan. 25, 2012.

The video (at the link) shows about five minutes of real time compressed into 30 seconds through the magic of time-lapse photography.

keep reading

Jónína Óskarsdóttir’s flickr page has a crop of amazing pics of the aurora borealis from last night as well as from earlier in the year and later last year. Also, here’s a fantastic explainer with some more pretty images: What is the Aurora Borealis?

Jónína Óskarsdóttir’s flickr page has a crop of amazing pics of the aurora borealis from last night as well as from earlier in the year and later last year.

Also, here’s a fantastic explainer with some more pretty images: What is the Aurora Borealis?

Our resident space expert, Ian O’Neill, explains how the aurora borealis and australis are created.

Follow Ian’s Tumblr here.

Submit Your Northern Lights Images Around the world the epic Northern Lights (caused by a massive geometric storm) seen across the country showed off in magnificent pink and green skies in parts of the United States. The Aurora Borealis is a rare sight in the skies above the U.S. Did you see it? Did you get pictures? If so, submit them to DiscoveryNews. We are compiling images for a spectacular slideshow later.

Submit Your Northern Lights Images

Around the world the epic Northern Lights (caused by a massive geometric storm) seen across the country showed off in magnificent pink and green skies in parts of the United States.

The Aurora Borealis is a rare sight in the skies above the U.S.

Did you see it? Did you get pictures? If so, submit them to DiscoveryNews. We are compiling images for a spectacular slideshow later.