Ghost Aurora over Canada
What does this aurora look like to you? While braving the cold to watch the skies above northern Canada early one morning in 2013, a most unusual aurora appeared. The aurora definitely appeared to be shaped like something , but what?
Two ghostly possibilities recorded by the astrophotographer were "witch" and "goddess of dawn", but please feel free to suggest your own Halloween-enhanced impressions. Regardless of fantastical pareidolic interpretations, the pictured aurora had a typical green color and was surely caused by the scientifically commonplace action of high energy particles from space interacting with oxygen in Earth's upper atmosphere. In the image foreground, at the bottom, is a frozen Alexandra Falls, while evergreen trees cross the middle.
Image & info via APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuichi Takasaka
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Nice choice of pictures! I'm thinking more phoenix-like, but, yeah, it's all ionization.
ReplyDeleteI can see the phoenix one above...but first is Zeus :D, or maybe Thor...still the hammer is missing.
ReplyDeleteLoki pretending to be Thor just to mess with us. Or some representations of Kali, with her crazy hair and arms and general spiky nature.
ReplyDeleteCorina Marinescu Don't worry Mjølner always returns after the mission is complete.
ReplyDeleteDragon/Serpent facing up toward the stars.
ReplyDeleteI see a woman with a phoenix for her hair
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