posted on November 21, 2003 03:23:59 PM new
What a spectacular show!! Not trying to be funny, but when I saw the photos, all I could think of was the line from the "Interview with God"...."Damn, He's Good!"
Northern Lights appear over Scotland
A solar storm has hit Earth's outer defences, generating colourful northern lights in Scotland.
This spectacular aurora display was captured over the pier at St Andrews by Thomas Robitaille, an undergraduate student of Astrophysics at the town's university.
The display follows a large solar flare which sends a stream of charged particles towards the earth that are captured by the magnetic field lines in the polar regions and when they hit the upper atmosphere, excite molecules of gas, mainly nitrogen and oxygen, causing them to emit an eerie green and red light.
The storm was generated along with a medium-class solar flare.
Story filed: 15:53 Friday 21st November 2003 (Ananova)
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[ edited by wgm on Nov 21, 2003 03:24 PM ]
