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Sunday, March 17, 2024

St. Patrick’s Aurora Illuminates the Night Sky of Alaska

St. Patrick’s Aurora Illuminates the Night Sky of Alaska

As we move closer to the peak of solar cycle 25, activity on the Sun is ratcheting up. One sign of that in Earth’s atmosphere in the form of a dazzling display of the aurora borealis, or northern lights.

This majestic image of the dazzling green lights of the aurora borealis was captured on March 17, 2015, around 5:30 a.m. EDT in Donnelly Creek, Alaska.

Learn more about aurora in this NASA PDF:

https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/EPO/auroral_poster/aurora_all.pdf


Image Credit: Sebastian Saarloos

Release Date: May 16, 2023


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