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Ref: http://spaceweather.com/
AURORA SURPRISE: Carol Lakomiak of Tomahawk, Wisconsin, was outdoors with her telescope on July 25th when she saw something she didn't expect: colorful shimmering auroras. There was no widespread geomagnetic storm in progress, yet the Northern Lights were active anyway. Auroras could appear again after nightfall on July 27th when Earth is expected to enter a solar wind stream flowing from a coronal hole on the sun. METEOR WATCH: Sky watchers who have been going outside between midnight and dawn to see Mars have lately been seeing something else, too: shooting stars. Mars is in the constellation Aquarius, and so is the radiant of the delta Aquarid meteor shower, which peaks this year on July 28th and 29th. This is not a major shower. It produces just 10 to 20 meteors each hour. But if you stand outside for 10 minutes or so, you're likely to spot two or three delta Aquarids--a lovely bonus for Mars watchers. -Sam Wormley http://edu-observatory.org/eo/aurora.html |
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