Posted on 06 January 2011 at 10:25h
Last night I saw the Aurora Borealis. It was nothing like this picture by one of our students (Matthew Enger) of the aurora over the college last year. Photos usually look better than the real thing as the camera takes in more light that our eyes, especially if a long exposure is used however last night was particularly poor due to that fact that the sky was completely covered by cloud so all I saw was a slight glow towards the North behind the clouds. Coincidently yesterday I got sent a link to the NASA website with an article about the Aurora. Actually it's not really coincidental as reading that was probably what made me look up last night instead of keeping my eyes fixed on the icy surface of the road. How is it that even an institution like NASA can write sentences like "energy stirs up the particles and energy trapped in Earth’s space". Hmm
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