Aurora over Clouds

Auroras in total happen excessive above the clouds. The auroral glow is created when lickety-split-engaging particles ejected from the Sun impact the Earth’s magnetosphere, from which charged particles spiral along the Earth’s magnetic field to strike atoms and molecules excessive in the Earth’s ambiance. An oxygen atom, as an illustration, will glow in the fairway mild continuously emitted by an aurora after being energized by this sort of collision. The lowest piece of an aurora will typically happen about 100 kilometers up, while most clouds exist handiest beneath about 10 kilometers. The relative heights of clouds and auroras are shown clearly in the featured image in 2015 from Dyrholaey, Iceland. There, a particular astrophotographer withstood excessive winds and at the birth attach overcast skies in an try and catch aurora over a picturesque lighthouse, handiest to purchase, accidentally, the featured image in conjunction with elongated lenticular clouds, along the manner. Apply APOD on Instagram in: English, Farsi, Indonesian, Persian, or Portuguese