Showing posts with label Northern Lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northern Lights. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Northern Lights: Aurora Borealis at the Arctic Circle (PICS)
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These spectacular photographs, taken from Spaceweather.com, capture the beauty of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis. Sylvain Serre took this picture in Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada, on March 25 2009
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Roar a Roar for Themis
The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake, Alaska: United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang
Five satellites are helping scientists understand what causes the Northern Lights. It involves a flux rope, which sounds like it should be the cable that'll help launch the space elevator.
Also in today's links: stolen feces, sacred stones, LaserPup, and more.
- Anything up there you're curious about? Public voting is open to decide what the Hubble Telescope should point at next.
- Don't you hate it when people steal your shit? Especially your scientifically significant feces? (We can call this a minor trend in Britain once we get a third instance.)
- In what may be the ultimate synergy of lasers, puppies, and the Internet, a man has built a ceiling-mounted, laser-powered, Internet-controlled device to entertain his dog.
- A stone found buried with an Egyptian child mummy supports the idea that Egyptians believed colors held "sacred energy." Imagine what they'd have made of an Aurora.
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