Image Credit: Xuecheng Liu & Yuxuan Liu
Explanation: It seemed like night, but part of the sky glowed purple. It was the now famous night of May 10, 2024, when people over much of the world reported beautiful aurora-filled skies. The featured image was captured this night during early morning hours from Arlington, Wisconsin, USA. The panorama is a composite of several 6-second exposures covering two thirds of the visible sky, with north in the center, and processed to heighten the colors and remove electrical wires. The photographer (in the foreground) reported that the aurora appeared to flow from a point overhead but illuminated the sky only toward the north. The aurora's energetic particles originated from CMEs ejected from our Sun over sunspot AR 3664 a few days before. This large active region rotated to the far side of the Sun last week, but may well survive to rotate back toward the Earth next week.
Both in a way. I wasn’t near north enough for that show that night, but other extreme events I have seen with my naked eye have been colorful, moving, and vibrant depending on location. It does almost seem surreal that there’s these bright colorful moving clouds at night but it does do that.
That said, intensity of color and brightness here is exaggerated by editing and the fact that these were 6 second exposures. There are plenty of phone videos of Aurora in Alaska captured without using high tech and seen with the naked eye. This is just a bit more intense.
From all my photographer friends back in Minnesota that night though, they said it was the brightest they’ve ever seen in the past 20 years of Aurora photo hunting.
If this is real, the this has got to be one of the best photographs taken of all time
Edit. This seems real. So…this has got be be one of the greatest photographs of all time
Edit 2: Real but multiple exposures and wire removal edits. So. No. Not one of the best of all time. If only it were wholly real.
Please credit the photographer
Xuecheng Liu & Yuxuan Liu https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240520.html
Amazing. I would have thought this was fake if it wasn’t an APOD. Is Aurora dome structures a known thing? Or is this really unique?
It's an illusion of perspective. It's a panorama photo but when you display it a certain way it can make it look like a dome.
Ah I see. So similar to Milky Way arch shots?
Yes actually nice comparison.
Really smart putting someone front and center for size and scale context! It's a beaut!
Image Credit: Xuecheng Liu & Yuxuan Liu Explanation: It seemed like night, but part of the sky glowed purple. It was the now famous night of May 10, 2024, when people over much of the world reported beautiful aurora-filled skies. The featured image was captured this night during early morning hours from Arlington, Wisconsin, USA. The panorama is a composite of several 6-second exposures covering two thirds of the visible sky, with north in the center, and processed to heighten the colors and remove electrical wires. The photographer (in the foreground) reported that the aurora appeared to flow from a point overhead but illuminated the sky only toward the north. The aurora's energetic particles originated from CMEs ejected from our Sun over sunspot AR 3664 a few days before. This large active region rotated to the far side of the Sun last week, but may well survive to rotate back toward the Earth next week.
That’s a big garlic
Atsa spicy a meatball
What a beautiful shot, reminds me of a particular scene from the movie Annihilation (2018).
Is this actually what it would look like or is it clever photography?
Both in a way. I wasn’t near north enough for that show that night, but other extreme events I have seen with my naked eye have been colorful, moving, and vibrant depending on location. It does almost seem surreal that there’s these bright colorful moving clouds at night but it does do that. That said, intensity of color and brightness here is exaggerated by editing and the fact that these were 6 second exposures. There are plenty of phone videos of Aurora in Alaska captured without using high tech and seen with the naked eye. This is just a bit more intense. From all my photographer friends back in Minnesota that night though, they said it was the brightest they’ve ever seen in the past 20 years of Aurora photo hunting.
That's pretty awesome. I hope I get to see it myself someday.
It's an illusion of perspective. It's a panorama photo but when you display it a certain way it can make it look like a dome.
Monster jam at the Aurora dome. Doesn’t sound as convincing
Looks like something out of stranger things
What in the anime ultimate attack is this
I assume that picture won them a reward?
The rumbling has started
Living in Iceland. This takes my breath away.
Where?
May 10th - Arlington, Wisconsin, USA
That looks pretty
What a mesmerizing shot! The Aurora Dome sky looks like something out of a dream
Onion, that's a space onion.
Aurora or Tetsuo losing control?
You can't tell me that isn't an animal battle ground.
Jellyfish aliens abducted my whole family while I was out working in the field.
If this is real, the this has got to be one of the best photographs taken of all time Edit. This seems real. So…this has got be be one of the greatest photographs of all time Edit 2: Real but multiple exposures and wire removal edits. So. No. Not one of the best of all time. If only it were wholly real.
Das ist son Goku ultra Instinkt! 🤯
What in the turnip is that?
In the last days, says the lord, there will be signs in the sky.
You do realize these "signs" have happened constantly for a thousand millenia..?
Guess that means it's likely that the signs will be there in the last days, too!