The aurora borealis is seen over the town of Hyvinkaa in southern Finland October 31, 2003. The aurora is very visible as a result of a second huge magnetic solar storm hitting the Earth on Thursday, just a day after an earlier one hit our planet in what one astronomer called an unprecedented one-two punch.
This image photographed at about midnight Alaska Standard time, October 30, 2003 shows aurora over the Matanuska glacier and the Chugach mountains in the Southeast sky. The Matanuska glacier is about 100 miles Northeast of Anchorage. Without any moon, the glacier doesn't show very well. A second huge magnetic solar storm hit Earth Thursday, just a day after an earlier one hurtled into the planet in what one astronomer called an unprecedented one-two punch. 'It's like the Earth is looking right down the barrel of a giant gun pointed at us by the sun ... and it's taken two big shots at us,' said John Kohl of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts.
This image photographed at about 6:00 Alaska Standard Time, October 29, 2003 shows aurora over Gunsight mountain located about 110 miles north east of Anchorage. This highly active aurora was photographed in the northwest sky. Powerful solar storms like this one cause a wide variety of aurora, in shape, color and motion. They also can appear in any part of the sky at this northern latitude, rather then the typical North sky. A second huge magnetic solar storm hit Earth Thursday, just a day after an earlier one hurtled into the planet in what one astronomer called an unprecedented one-two punch. 'It's like the Earth is looking right down the barrel of a giant gun pointed at us by the sun ... and it's taken two big shots at us,' said John Kohl of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts.
This image photographed at 6:30 AM Alaska Standard Time, October 29, 2003 shows aurora near Eureka, Alaska over the Chugach mountains, about 110 miles northeast of Anchorage. The orange in the photo is not aurora, but the sunrise. The twilight affects the color of the aurora, giving them more of a pastel color, and also shifted the common green aurora to a light blue. A second huge magnetic solar storm hit Earth October 30, just a day after an earlier one hurtled into the planet in what one astronomer called an unprecedented one-two punch. 'It's like the Earth is looking right down the barrel of a giant gun pointed at us by the sun ... and it's taken two big shots at us,' said John Kohl of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts.
In photo from the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, a major solar eruption is shown in progress. A powerful geomagnetic storm originating from the sun slammed into the Earth, creating interference with the North American power grid but no major disruptions in the United States
Solar activity is shown in an image made by NASA (news - web sites)'s SOHO Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument at 6:30 a.m. (1130 GMT) on October 28, 2003. The cloud, known to astronomers as a coronal mass ejection, is the one of the strongest ever detected since scientists started measuring these phenomena a quarter-century ago. When that cloud of particles gets here, perhaps by midday Wednesday, it could have severe effects, such as affecting some modern electronics and navigation equipment.
SOHO satellite view of solar activity on the sun in this undated photograph. The Earth's magnetic field was bombarded with extra energy from the Sun on October 24, 2003 when a geomagnetic storm sent charged particles that affected electric utilities, airline communications and satellite navigation systems. 'We predicted it would be a mid-level storm, a G-3, and that's where it is,' said Joe Kunches, chief of space weather operations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colorado.
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Incredible and Amazing Nature !!
in oneness
Usually you don't see it too well in the town area where i live, but got a good view of this.
