May 12, 2024
ngl I took many MANY pictures of the solar storm, but this one makes me laugh the hardest
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ngl I took many MANY pictures of the solar storm, but this one makes me laugh the hardest
Aurora from the biggest solar storm in over 20 years - Dunsborough, Western Australia
Nikon d810a - 35mm - ISO 3200 - f/2.8 - 2 x 8 seconds
January 20, 2026
So apparently I have just been at ground zero or a coronal mass ejection aurora...
It really looked like this...
I am speechless
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courtesy of Nikolas Cikala who captured this aurora display from Svinia, Slovakia around 10:40pm local time, Jan. 19, 2025
The sky giving us a treat tonight - have you gone outside and tried to get a glimpse of the Aurora borealis? I love it when things like that happen. (And the iPhone is doing quite a good job too!)
Robert Beatty — "What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet" (illustration, The New Yorker, February 26, 2024)
Aurora on Saturn's south pole.
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