The Pithy Amateur Astronomer

The adventure and aggregation of a short-winded amateur astronomer.


Source: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100806.html / NASA / Goddard / SDO AIA Team

Earlier this week, the Sun released a Coronal Mass Ejection that made the 93 million mile trip to Earth. I have been searching for images of the auroras and finally found one on Space.com. Thankfully the Earth possesses safety measures to keep us from getting nuked by our nearest star.


Source: Space.com and www.fredrik_broms.fotosidan.se

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