Sunday, February 10, 2008

AURORA ALERT: High-latitude sky watchers, be alert for auroras. Earth is entering a solar wind stream and the encounter is causing geomagnetic storms. This morning in Alaska, "the auroras were so bright they lit up the mountains with an emerald green color," reports Dave Taylor from the Matanuska Glacier. Across the Bering Strait in Russian, a similar display was observed.

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