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Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:19:04 JST Wonder of Science

Stars, thunderstorms, city lights, aurora, and sunrise, captured in a single time-lapse sequence from the International Space Station (view fullscreen).
Credit: NASA Johnson
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- Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:29:37 JST Wonder of Science
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  Timelapse created using photographs taken from the International Space Station, courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center, ISS065-E-447653-449055 http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov.
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- Ed Medina (that_dude_ed_medina@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 11:13:06 JST Ed Medina
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  @wonderofscience Lord Jamar, where you at... LOL 🌎
  
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- Beggar Midas (beggarmidas@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 14:32:10 JST Beggar Midas
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  @wonderofscience How much it pains my soul i'll never even get as far as the ISS. My whole life since seeing the moons of jupiter through a telescope when I was seven I've known that's where I wanted to be. Out there on the new frontier. Blazing trails & discovering how we might live & thrive elsewhere. for nearly 50 years now wanting to put this planet in my rear view mirror. But I will die here, never having gotten any closer than a commercial airliner.
  
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- seachanged (seachanged@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 14:38:07 JST seachanged
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  Satellites galore!
  
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- Arapalla (arapalla@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 16:52:12 JST Arapalla
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  Damn, time lapse makes a fast object very fast.
  
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- Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 07:04:33 JST Wonder of Science
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  @Zekovski Added, thank you! Just a slight change of "magnetosphere" to "atmospheric airglow". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airglow
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    Airglow (also called nightglow) is a faint emission of light by a planetary atmosphere. In the case of Earth's atmosphere, this optical phenomenon causes the night sky never to be completely dark, even after the effects of starlight and diffused sunlight from the far side are removed. This phenomenon originates with self-illuminated gases and has no relationship with Earth's magnetism or sunspot activity. History The airglow phenomenon was first identified in 1868 by Swedish physicist Anders Ångström. Since then, it has been studied in the laboratory, and various chemical reactions have been observed to emit electromagnetic energy as part of the process. Scientists have identified some of those processes that would be present in Earth's atmosphere, and astronomers have verified that such emissions are present. Simon Newcomb was the first person to scientifically study and describe airglow, in 1901. Airglow existed in pre-industrial society and was known to the ancient Greeks. "Aristotle and Pliny described the phenomena of Chasmata, which can be identified in part as auroras, and...
- Red Hot Chill Pépère (zekovski@pouet.chapril.org)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 07:04:34 JST Red Hot Chill Pépère
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  Very fluid gif showing a portion of the Earth surrounded by the magnetosphere (?) on a starry background. A solar panel from the international space station is visible at the start.
  As the station rotates around the Earth, we can see thunder and cites lights. Then slowly after, an aurora borealis. And finally the white light from the sun, appearing brighter and brighter until it fills the image.
  #Alt4You
  
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