Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway
Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.
1. Wicked!
2. Ignoring the color, anyone else think this kinda looks like the Phoenix Force?
Oh, hell. It IS the Phoenix.
That’s a hell of an Avengers Vs. X-Men tie-in, Marvel.
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I want to go home
Holy shit
One day I will make it to Alaska to see this.