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  1. I wish that people posting Aurora photos would indicate the date they were taken. 💜

    #Aurora #AuroraBorealis

  2. I wish that people posting Aurora photos would indicate the date they were taken. 💜

    #Aurora #AuroraBorealis

  3. I wish that people posting Aurora photos would indicate the date they were taken. 💜

    #Aurora #AuroraBorealis

  4. Auroras might be visible in Canada 🇨🇦 tonight

    Me: But not where I live because… snooooooo! ⛄️

    cbc.ca/news/science/northern-l
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    Les aurores pourraient être visibles au Canada 🇨🇦 ce soir

    Moi: Sauf pas chez moi parce que neige ❄️

    // Article en anglais //

    #Auroras #Aurores #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #AuroresBoréales #Canada

  5. Northern lights to be visible over parts of Canada again, after Tuesday's incredible show

    cbc.ca/news/science/aurora-in-
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    Les aurores boréales seront visibles sur des parties du Canada encore, après le spectacle incroyable de mardi soir

    // Article en anglais //

    #Canada #NorthernLights #Auroras #AuroraBorealis #Aurores #AuroresBoréales

  6. "Aurora Borealis," Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, 1881-82.

    Trouvelot (1827-95) has a mixed legacy. Born in France, he and his family fled to the US after a coup by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte in 1851. He was earning a living as an artist and illustrator, but also had an interest in entomology. He was studying moths and had imported eggs of the spongy moth to his home...which proceeded to escape and devastate the hardwood forests here. Spongy moths (formerly called gypsy moths) are still a problem today and the story is an early example of how invasive species get introduced.

    After that debacle, he switched to astronomy, and soon joined the staff of Harvard as their resident astronomical illustrator, and worked at the US Naval Observatory, making early observations of sunspots. He returned to France in '82, where he spent the rest of his life.

    His illustrations are still well regarded today and have a decorative power of their own; I had a few masks with his illustrations during COVID.

    From the collection of the New York Public Library.

    #Art #ScientificArt #scientific_illustrators #AuroraBorealis #EtienneLeopoldTrouvelot #Astronomy

  7. Last one for today.

    I've only ever known my husband get to more than one location on a photoshoot on a couple of occasions. Usually there's just not the time.

    Last night/early morning he visited 6 different places on the Island. This is #ComptonBay on the #IsleofWight
    #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #LandscapePhotography

  8. Ein starker Sonnensturm sorgt für ein außergewöhnliches Himmelsereignis. Bis weit nach Süddeutschland waren Polarlichter in der Nacht zum 11. Mai 2024 über Deutschland zu sehen.#Polarlichter #Sonnensturm #Auroraborealis #Sonne #Erdmagnetfeld #Astronomie
    Aurora borealis: Polarlichter über Deutschland