October 12th, 2012 at 4:35PM
(via APOD: 2012 October 11 - Aurorae over Planet Earth) Holy cow! Thanks to the coronal mass ejection (CME) on the 4th/5th, we got a decent bit of aurorae on the 7th/8th as the charged particles from the Sun impacted the Earth’s magnetosphere, exciting oxygen and nitrogen in the upper atmosphere. Shown here is a shot of North America (centered, a bit, on Chicago!) with the city lights shining through. Aurorae over Planet Earth Image Credit : NASA, NOAA, GSFC, Suomi NPP, Earth Observatory, processing by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon

(via APOD: 2012 October 11 - Aurorae over Planet Earth)

Holy cow! Thanks to the coronal mass ejection (CME) on the 4th/5th, we got a decent bit of aurorae on the 7th/8th as the charged particles from the Sun impacted the Earth’s magnetosphere, exciting oxygen and nitrogen in the upper atmosphere.

Shown here is a shot of North America (centered, a bit, on Chicago!) with the city lights shining through.

Aurorae over Planet Earth 
Image Credit : NASA, NOAA, GSFC, Suomi NPP, Earth Observatory, 
processing by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon

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