Unexplained Spiral Appears in Alaska's Northern Lights
TL;DR
A light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aurora for a few minutes in the Alaska skies, which was caused by excess fuel that had been released from a SpaceX rocket that launched from California about three hours before the spiral appeared. The appearance of the swirl was caught in time-lapse on the Geophysical Institute’s all-sky camera and shared widely. While not a common sight, such occurrences have been seen about three times.
Topics:sciencescience-and-technology#alaska#northern-lights#rocket-fuel#science-and-technology#spacex#spiral-cloud
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