A Whale of an Aurora over Swedish Forest
Model: gpt-4.1
Prompt version: 1.0
What’s that in the sky? An Aurora.
A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun earlier this month, throwing a cloud of fast-moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth. Part of this cloud impacted our Earth’s Magnetosphere and, bolstered by a sudden gap, resulted in spectacular Auroras being seen at some high northern latitudes.
Featured here is a particularly photogenic auroral corona captured above a forest in Sweden from a scenic perch overlooking the city of Östersund. To some, this shimmering green glow of recombining atmospheric oxygen might appear like a large whale, but feel free to share what it looks like to you.
The unusually quiet Sun of the past few years has now passed. As our Sun now approaches a solar maximum in its 11-year solar magnetic cycle, dramatic Auroras like this are sure to continue.
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