Showing posts with label Shengyu Li. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shengyu Li. Show all posts

27 November 2024

Solar Radiation Storm & Avalanche Lights

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SpaceWeather reported this interesting event on 25 November 2024:

MYSTERIOUS BLUE AVALANCHE LIGHTS IN CHINA: This might be something new. On the night of Oct. 27th, Chinese astrophotographer Shengyu Li set up his camera to record star trails over Mount Xiannairi in Sichuan, China. The long exposure had just begun when an icy serac broke free from a hanging glacier. Note the blue flashes within the ensuing avalanche.

It's known as "triboluminescence" ~ today (27th) SpaceWeather has more information about the phenomenon, please read about it here.

On 22 November 2024, we had a moderate (S2) to minor (S2) Solar Radiation storm:

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SpaceWeather reports:

SOLAR RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS: Today, Earth and all of our planet's satellites are being hit by a blizzard of energetic protons. It's an S1-class solar radiation storm (subsiding from a peak of S2) . You can see the particles in this coronagraph movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):

Please read the article here.


Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3

SpaceWeather It's another ATLAS Comet, this one is named C/2024 G3. From the footage above, we see our Sun beaming generously into the d...