Northern lights wave above a cabin in Abisko in northern Sweden on January 7. "The entire sky opened up like a beautiful inferno," photographer Peter Rosén told spaceweather.com. "Red, blue and green like a dancing queen on the sky." The solar ejections that cause auroras can also create geomagnetic storms that can affect spacewalking astronauts, Earth-orbiting satellites, and even communications and power systems on the ground.
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Brilliant photo keep them coming
Posted by: Golanth2020 | January 24, 2011 at 03:04 PM
Wow.
Posted by: sancrows | January 25, 2011 at 07:56 AM