PHOTOS: Stunning solar storm, lights fill the sky
2:04 PM, Jan 25, 2012
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Amazing night (CREDIT: Jaromir Stanczyk in
Iceland - þingvellir)
People who have never seen it, can not imagine how it works when the northern lights travel over the sky with more than 500 miles per second. It lights up everything around us, and all snow was completely green. (CREDIT: Bjarki Mikkelsen in Jokkmokk Lapland Sweden)
People who have never seen it, can not imagine how it works when the northern lights travel over the sky with more than 500 miles per second. It lights up everything around us, and all snow was completely green. (CREDIT: Bjarki Mikkelsen in Jokkmokk Lapland Sweden)
People who have never seen it, can not imagine how it works when the northern lights travel over the sky with more than 500 miles per second. It lights up everything around us, and all snow was completely green. (CREDIT: Bjarki Mikkelsen in Jokkmokk Lapland Sweden)
People who have never seen it, can not imagine how it works when the northern lights travel over the sky with more than 500 miles per second. It lights up everything around us, and all snow was completely green. (CREDIT: Bjarki Mikkelsen in Jokkmokk Lapland Sweden)
Amazing night (CREDIT: Jaromir Stanczyk in Iceland - þingvellir)
Tonight 8 participants and I were treated to one of the most spectacular aurora displays I have ever seen. Words can not describe the excitement we shared and the sights we saw. (CREDIT: Chad Blakley in Abisko National park, Sweden)
Tonight 8 participants and I were treated to one of the most spectacular aurora displays I have ever seen. Words can not describe the excitement we shared and the sights we saw. (CREDIT: Chad Blakley in Abisko National park, Sweden)
Amazing night (CREDIT: Jaromir Stanczyk in Iceland - þingvellir)
Unbelievable bright and fast-moving auroras directly overhead. I have never seen something so extraordinary like this in the night sky ever before! (CREDIT: Jens Buchmann in Kiruna, Sweden)
Amazing night (CREDIT: Jaromir Stanczyk in
Iceland - þingvellir)
We went out with snowmobiles to wait for the incoming storm in Muonio, West-Lapland, Finland. (CREDIT: Antti Pietikäinen in Muonio, Lapland, Finland)
The promised aurora came at last. I made two panoramas of my friend while he was taking pictures. (CREDIT: Göran Strand in Östersund, Sweden)
Very nice and fast moving auroras tonight, at times difficult to shoot because of the fast movement. (CREDIT: Bernt Olsen in Tisnes and Grøtfjorden, Kvaløya, Tromsø, Norway)
Very nice and fast moving auroras tonight, at times difficult to shoot because of the fast movement. (CREDIT: Bernt Olsen in Tisnes and Grøtfjorden, Kvaløya, Tromsø, Norway)
Unbelievable bright and fast-moving auroras directly overhead. I have never seen something so extraordinary like this in the night sky ever before! (CREDIT: Jens Buchmann in Kiruna, Sweden)
Expecting the arrival of the shockwave from the solar wind I was out on the coast of Tromso. (CREDIT: Hinrich Baesemann on Tromso, northern Norway)
The promised aurora came at last. I made two panoramas of my friend while he was taking pictures. (CREDIT: Göran Strand in Östersund, Sweden)
-33 degrees celsius, lots of snow on the trees and great auroras. Suddendly around 11 pm there was a second even larger show of dancing auroras. (CREDIT: Peter Rosén in Kiruna, Swedish Lapland)
Unbelievable bright and fast-moving auroras directly overhead. I have never seen something so extraordinary like this in the night sky ever before! (CREDIT: Jens Buchmann in Kiruna, Sweden)
Tonight 8 participants and I were treated to one of the most spectacular aurora displays I have ever seen. Words can not describe the excitement we shared and the sights we saw. (CREDIT: Chad Blakley in Abisko National park, Sweden)
Very nice and fast moving auroras tonight, at times difficult to shoot because of the fast movement. (CREDIT: Bernt Olsen in Tisnes and Grøtfjorden, Kvaløya, Tromsø, Norway)
Very nice and fast moving auroras tonight, at times difficult to shoot because of the fast movement. (CREDIT: Bernt Olsen in Tisnes and Grøtfjorden, Kvaløya, Tromsø, Norway)
-33 degrees celsius, lots of snow on the trees and great auroras. Suddendly around 11 pm there was a second even larger show of dancing auroras. (CREDIT: Peter Rosén in Kiruna, Swedish Lapland)
A coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetic field on Jan. 24nd, sparking a geomagnetic storm (Kp=5) and bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. (CREDIT: Spaceweather.com)
A coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetic field on Jan. 24nd, sparking a geomagnetic storm (Kp=5) and bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. (CREDIT: Spaceweather.com)