Astronomical picture of the day...[warning: dial-up horror!]

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Shadowfax

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Beautiful! :)

Aurora's Ring

Credit & Copyright: Trygve Lindersen

Explanation: Gusting solar winds and blasts of charged particles from the Sun made the early days of October rewarding ones for those anticipating auroras. While out enjoying the stormy space weather from Toemmeraas, Norway, Trygve Lindersen recorded this picturesque apparition of the northern lights with a digital camera on October 6. From this perspective, the curtains of green light formed a ring which seemed to hover, wraithlike, just above the foreground trees. But the ring of light was actually 100 kilometers or more above the trees and the greenish glow produced by oxygen molecules interacting with energetic electrons and fluorescing near the edge of space. After days of enchanting auroral displays on planet Earth, the solar activity which triggered October's geomagnetic storms seems to have subsided ... for now.
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Do you frequent at la astronomique picture a la day, then Shadow?

I have no idea why I said it like that :retard:
 
yeah, it's bookmarked and i visit it daily...

started doing that after you linked it a while ago :) thanks :)
really like the pics plus it's interesting :)


and french.....eew! :D
 
Have you looked at some of the pictures from years ago? There are some really amazing ones. Problem is there is about 3000 pictures. I've been visiting there for ages but I haven't even got through a quarter of them!
 
*looks at the stars*

hmm...Gemini... The stars say that you have two days to live, so you better get that pony you've always wanted.

Aw...that's too bad man :crap:
 
That's a great picture but i wonder why photos always display them as green when the real good ones have all the colours of the rainbow?
 
Todays link: wtf?

Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors
Credit & Copyright: Robert D. Loss, WAISRC
Explanation: The remnants of nuclear reactors nearly two billion years old were found in the 1970s in Africa. These reactors are thought to have occurred naturally. No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissionable uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction. Pictured above is Fossil Reactor 15, located in Oklo, Gabon. Uranium oxide remains are visible as the yellowish rock. Oklo by-products are being used today to probe the stability of the fundamental constants over cosmological time-scales and to develop more effective means for disposing of human-manufactured nuclear waste.
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