Multicolored aurora in Iceland, by Marco Migliardi on behalf of Associazione Astronomica Cortina, Italy
First place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Aurorae (still images) Aurorae are the result of ionisation and excitation processes in Earth's upper atmosphere, caused by charged particles from the solar wind or from coronal mass ejections. The different colours in an aurora...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.5273472 2023-05-15T16:48:51+02:00 Multicolored aurora in Iceland, by Marco Migliardi on behalf of Associazione Astronomica Cortina, Italy Migliardi, Marco OAE, IAU 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5273472 https://zenodo.org/record/5273472 en eng Zenodo https://iau.org/public/images/detail/ann21047a/ https://zenodo.org/communities/astro4edu https://iau.org/public/images/detail/ann21047a/ https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5273473 https://zenodo.org/communities/astro4edu Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Astrophotography Aurorae Image graphic Photo ImageObject 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5273472 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5273473 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z First place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Aurorae (still images) Aurorae are the result of ionisation and excitation processes in Earth's upper atmosphere, caused by charged particles from the solar wind or from coronal mass ejections. The different colours in an aurora display indicate the species of atmospheric atoms and molecules involved. The most common colour is a bright green, which, together with deep red, originates from atomic oxygen. Blue, purple and pink hues are much rarer and originate from molecular nitrogen. The reflection of the aurora in the water indicates the brightness of intense aurorae at higher latitudes. Credit: Marco Migliardi on behalf of Associazione Astronomica Cortina/IAU OAE. Still Image Iceland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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First place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Aurorae (still images) Aurorae are the result of ionisation and excitation processes in Earth's upper atmosphere, caused by charged particles from the solar wind or from coronal mass ejections. The different colours in an aurora display indicate the species of atmospheric atoms and molecules involved. The most common colour is a bright green, which, together with deep red, originates from atomic oxygen. Blue, purple and pink hues are much rarer and originate from molecular nitrogen. The reflection of the aurora in the water indicates the brightness of intense aurorae at higher latitudes. Credit: Marco Migliardi on behalf of Associazione Astronomica Cortina/IAU OAE. |
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Multicolored aurora in Iceland, by Marco Migliardi on behalf of Associazione Astronomica Cortina, Italy |
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Multicolored aurora in Iceland, by Marco Migliardi on behalf of Associazione Astronomica Cortina, Italy |
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