THIS NEW 'ALIEN MATERIAL' IS SO DARK, YOUR EYES CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT

Goths across the planet, prepare to be amazed. British scientists have developed a 'strange, alien' material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light.

If you were to wear a suit made out of it, your heads and hands might appear to float around a weird, suit-shaped hole.

It's set a new world record, and the human eye literally can't understand what it's seeing. It's made of carbon nanotubes which are each 10,000 times thinner than human hair.

According to the Independent, there's a whole host of things this material could be used for. For example, enabling astronomical cameras, telescopes and infrared scanning systems to function more effectively.

Apparently, the colour could also be used by the military in various capacities. However, the company who made it, Surrey NanoSystems, can't discuss these for obvious reasons.

Ben Jensen, the firm's chief technical officer, said that the material, which has been named Vantablack, has been grown on sheets of aluminium foil. The sheets can be crumpled and they have tested it on miniature hills and valleys. Weirdly, the landscape disappears ( via theladbible.com ).

Jensen said: "You expect to see the hills and all you can see ... it's like black, like a hole, like there's nothing there. It just looks so strange." 

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WHAT IS THIS MYSTERIOUS OBJECT THAT CAME OUT OF A BLACK HOLE?

Recently a mysterious object redefined everything we thought we knew about black holes. First of all black holes are supposed to suck everything into them, even light. Secondly, the gravity is so strong that it was believed that nothing in the known universe could come out of a black hole.

That all changed when NASA announced that something very large exited a black hole.

So what exactly happened? Well as two of NASA’s space telescopes, which included the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or (NuSTAR) for short, were observing this particular black hole, a large object very suddenly “launched” itself away from the middle or “corona” of the black hole. Right after this remarkable event a massive pulse of X-ray energy spewed forth from the corona. This event seems to have the scientists of earth completely baffled.

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To Fiona Harrison, who is the principal investigator for NuSTAR, made a strong note saying that this type of phenomenon is unheard of and completely changes what we originally thought about how black holes function. Luckily with the level of technology that we as a race have been able to achieve, we were able to record this event. The data from this should provide now, some much-needed clues to just how black holes function and how they are structured.

Saint Mary’s universities, Dan Wilkins says that,

The Milky way is immense, and in a region of our galaxy that is simply called Sagittarius A* has been generating a range of flares just about every 10 days or so. Since the passing of this past year, the activity of these flares has drastically increased, to the point of nearly every day. You may be wondering just what that means. Well, let’s look into the research from the astronomers to see just what they have been able to put together.

Utilizing the resources that the astronomers currently have at their disposal, which is 3 huge space telescopes, they have been able to piece together an extremely fascinating cosmic connection to these flares.

Gabriele Ponti, who is from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics located in Germany, made this interesting comment pertaining to the flares,

So in short, it seems that we have been able to observe a phenomenon that has completely changed how we thought black holes functioned. An object actually exited the corona of the black hole and afterwards a flare of x-ray energy followed suit, leaving us completely baffled.

With the participation of the University of Granada, a team of researchers have been able to type of structure in the vastness of our solar system, despite it being more than five billion light-years away from the little blue planet we call home.

Just to put this achievement into a different perspective, our galaxy is huge and we have been able to find an object that emits an enormous amount of energy, so much so its energy can be compared to the total energy that is emitted by the entire galaxy.

The researchers were able to achieve this feat, by using the so-called gravitational microlensing effect, which is an incident that is caused by the stars that belong to our galaxy can be utilized to magnify other tiny regions in the quasar that contains this object.

Also, through this process the researchers have been able to measure the innermost edge of the disk of matter or what they call the (accretion disk) that is orbiting around this particular quasar that is called Q2237+0305, which doesn’t necessarily roll off the tongue very well, so another name it goes by is called “Einstein Cross”.

Throughout the study of the changes in the type of brightness of the four images of the said quasar.

Researcher from the UGR department of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Jorge Jiménez Vicente, explains that,

In our galaxy, only 1 in every 500 quasars is generally affected at all by the gravitational microlensing effect. The information that astronomers have gained from this incident will be quite useful in helping us to understand the quasars, which may be essential to helping us understand just how our galaxy was born and even evolved.

When you think about how huge this object is it really makes us wonder what it could possibly be. Let us know in the comment below what theories you have about the object ( via themindunleashed.org ). 

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UFO Expert Dismisses Meteor Theory of a UFO Over Gladstone

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Sheryl Gottshall, president of UFO Research Queensland, said that finding the truth is to rule out possibilities. When it comes to UFOs, Gottshall said that it is a must to go through the list of possibilities and tick them off.  For example, someone says it is a meteor, then ticking it off is needed.

Gottshall is talking about the theories of the bright light and the massive boom observed above the Gladstone region recently.

Mark Sugars, the member of Bundaberg Astronomy Society, said the description could suggest a meteorite. The strange event was witnessed from Rockhampton to Gympie.

But Gladstone resident Rory Henricks believed it was a plane shooting fireworks out of its rear.

RAAF watch keeper Corporal King has disclosed that carrier KC-30A took off from the nearest air base to Gladstone on the night of the reported sighting.

Residents saw the object over Gladstone region, including Tannum Sands, Agnes Water, Calliope, and Kirkwood and heard a boom sound approximately 9:20 p.m.

Corporal King did not reveal his first name because of strict defence force privacy protocol. He said that the massive plane took off from the Amberley Air Base and it should be the only plane flying from Amberley area that time.

Amberley Air Base is on the outskirts of Ipswich, 40kms south-west of Brisbane. Corporal King can’t reveal the reason of the aircraft in the area and the path it had taken as he isn’t at liberty to disclose such information.

A KC-30A is described as a heavily modified large Airbus A330 airliner. It can carry fuel loads of up to one hundred tonnes for a range of fighter jets and RAAF surveillance aircraft. It can also carry 270 passengers and 34,000 kg of cargo.

Ms Gottshall said that meteor theory doesn’t go well because there are no meteors that rumble for 5 minutes as one witness reported hearing.

Some witnesses also claim to have seen debris flying from the object, creating a theory of a plane crash. Ms Gottshall said that this wasn’t possible as a plane crash would have emergency services arriving in the area.

As of the theory of KC-30A over Gladstone, she said that it could be, but it is hard to tell exactly. If the identity is not surely identified, then it remains unidentified, Ms Gottshall explains.

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Police Inspector’s Report Describes UFO Encounter From the 18th Century France

Although some people believe the UFO phenomenon started in the 1900s, there are a few well-preserved accounts speaking of extraterrestrial encounters ever since humanity started to evolve. There’s evidence of such an event in the archives of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.

 

Antonio Fenoglio was a reputable professor from the University of Bologna, Italy. In 1967, he wrote an article regarding a mysterious discovery from the Archives of the French Academy of Science in Paris. In the file, he wrote about an incident from the late 1700s, when a presumed UFO had crashed near a village in France. All the town inhabitants witnessed the event, including two mayors, a doctor, and three men described as local authorities.

 

The story is related by a police inspector named Liabeuf, who in the summer of 1790 was sent from Paris to Alencon to make a thorough investigation of a hazardous incident which occurred somewhere west of the city gates, and had many respectable witnesses. Liabeuf reached the village, and the details he wrote in his report submitted to the French Academy of Sciences were completely ‘out of this world.’

 

“At 5 AM, on June 12th, several farmers caught sight of an enormous globe which seemed surrounded with flames. First they thought it was perhaps a balloon that had caught fire, but the great velocity and the whistling sound which came from that body caught their attention.

 

“The globe slowed down, made some oscillations and precipitated itself towards the top of a hill, unearthing plants along the slope. The heat which emanated from it was so intense that soon the grass and the small tree started burning. The peasants succeeded in controlling the fire which threatened to spread to the whole area.

 

“In the evening this sphere was still warm and something extraordinary happened, not to say an incredible thing. The witnesses were two mayors, a doctor and three other authorities who confirm my report, in addition to the dozens of peasants who were present.

 

 

“This sphere, which would have been large enough to contain a carriage, had not suffered from all that flight. It excited so much curiosity that people came from all parts to see it. Then all of a sudden a kind of door opened and, there is the interesting thing, a person like us came out of it, but this person was dressed in a strange way, wearing a tight-fitting suit and, seeing all that crowd, said some words which were not understood and fled into the woods. Instinctively, the peasants stepped back, in fear, and this saved them because soon after that the sphere exploded in silence, throwing pieces everywhere, and these pieces burned until they were reduced to powder.

 

“Researches were initiated to find the mysterious man, but he seemed to have dissolved.”

 

If the report proves to be authentic, it demonstrates that UFOs have been visiting us for hundreds of years, if not thousands or more. The highlighted report seems to depict a flying craft that overheated and was eventually forced to execute a brisk landing. In that chaos, the mob quickly gathered to see the cause, and they almost died out of curiosity. Fortunately there were no victims, and the feedback received from witnesses helped Liabeuf establish a detailed report for the French Academy of Sciences, which proves to be of tremendous use even today, as it narrates a rare event from the past involving an alien craft.

 

If Lieabeuf’s report is authentic or only a rumor spread by professor Fenoglio we are yet to find out, but one thing is certain: the report borrows numerous features from modern-day UFO encounters, and it reminds of the humanoid aliens depicted in other cases from our modern and post-modern history.

 

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Bob Lazar—The Man Who Dared Spill the Beans About Alien Technology and Area S4

This is the fascinating story of the man who worked for the most secret US governmental facility involving alien crafts and otherworldly technology and dared to spill the beans about it.

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In 1989, a man named Robert Scott Lazar contacted a local Las Vegas TV station (KLAS) asking for a chance to make his story public. Lazar claimed he had been employed as a physicist on project Galileo, the government’s most highly classified project at the time. The activity focused on reverse-engineering of alien technology so that the government could put it to good use, and studies were carried out at a top-secret base dubbed S4, located 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the notorious Area 51, near the Papoose lake.

 

According to Lazar’s description, the S4 facility had nine aircraft hangars embedded into the mountain. The hangar doors were designed at an angle matching the mountain slope and were also cloaked using natural material.

 

Lazar claims he had seen nine different alien vehicles at the base during December 1988 and April 1989 when he worked there, and he presented technical details regarding their propulsion mechanism which functioned on amplified gravity waves generated by a reactor placed on the bottom of the craft.

 

His activity included researching the fuel for the craft, a compound with the atomic number ‘115.’ This element had unusual properties that allowed the flying saucers to bend space around them, and it couldn’t be synthetized on earth. This alien technology allowed for point A and point B to be dragged together, thus reducing the traveling distances to a few minutes flight regardless of the distance.

 

 

 

 I am exactly sure of what I saw. I know what mainstream science is like, I know where physics stands–I know all of that–and this is an extraterrestrial craft, this technology is hundreds and hundreds of years in advance of us, and that’s the end of that story, Bob Lazar stated.

 

Lazar allegedly received briefings regarding the history of extraterrestrials on Earth for the past 100,000 years from aliens who originated from the forth planet of the binary stellar system Zeta Reticuli 2, the ones known as ‘greys’. He also claimed to have worked on a flying disk with a diameter of 9 to 12 meters. The craft had a commanding console and the seats were small, almost as befit for children.

 

After he went public, his life was put at risk as he got shot once and received countless threats from different groups of interest and shady individuals.

 

Television journalist George Knapp was intrigued by Bob Lazar’s story and so he went after more information. Unfortunately, the S4 base was out of reach since it was located on restricted ground where no one outside of the government could step in. After digging deeper into this enigmatic story, Knapp encountered even more problems that almost led him to a dead end.

 

Bob Lazar’s background has been difficult to verify. His hospital birth records, college manuscripts and employment evidence had all been erased and there is no evidence of him working at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. However, his name appeared in a telephone directory of Los Alamos scientists and a picture of him appeared in the July 1982 edition of the Los Alamos Monitor, showing a picture of Bob standing by a jet car and referring to his employment as a scientist with Los Alamos.

 

Bob Lazar offers a consistent amount of evidence supporting his assertions and he has since gained many followers. To them, Lazar is a very credible source with a strong background in physics and engineering. However, there are many skeptics who think the entire scenario is an act played out by Lazar in order to personally benefit from it.

 

 

Whatever his reasons, Lazar played a key role in propelling Area 51 to the notoriety it has today, despite being a top-secret facility. If we consider the extreme level of secrecy involving this governmental facility, it’s easy to link the disappearance of his life records to the interests of keeping Area 51 as an almost inexistent facility.

 

If Lazar is correct and also telling the truth, his testimony might be the single most descriptive account of what is going on right under our noses.

 

 

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Google Earth Locates Top Secret US Military Base (Area 6) Denied by the US Government

According to newly released image from Google Earth, there is a top secret US military base denied by the US not far away from infamous ‘Alien’ facility, Area 51

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New images have emerged from a ‘new’ top-secret US facility that only a few knew it even existed.

 

The Google Earth images were revealed days ago showing the clandestine secret facility — known as Area 6 — which is located deep in the Nevada desert on the Yucca flat, according to reports from the Las Vegas Review Journal.

 

According to reports, the top-secret facility is run by the National Nuclear Security Administration which has worked very hard in keeping the secret and working towards hiding the existence of the secret facility from prying eyes. In fact, the base was considered so important that even defense industry experts had no idea the base existed until now.

 

The airbase has a 5,000 feet runway which is mainly used for aircraft tests for federal agencies such as the Department of Defense and Homeland Security, reports the Las Vegas Review Journal.

 

These agencies use Area 6 to test unmanned aircraft with sensors and away from the public eye – and to avoid being spied on in space, National Nuclear Security Administration spokesman Darwin Morgan told the newspaper.

 

‘We have controlled airspace and that gives them opportunities to test various types of platforms’, he said.

 

‘We do a wide variety of work for others – supporting people with sensor development activities. It evolved from the nuclear testing program. We had to have very good sensors to collect data in a split second before they were obliterated.’

 

 

According to reports, Area 6 was built in the 1950s and cost $9.6 million at the time. It is believed that unmanned aircraft are tested at the top-secret site.

 

According to reports by the Las Vegas Review Journal, Area 6 is where agencies intend to develop counter-terrorism techniques, including testing equipment with capabilities to detect radioactive material. So far, Area 6 is not connected to UFOs and otherworldly phenomenon like its neighboring facility, Area 51.

 

Interestingly, Area 6, which still has no ‘official name’ is located only a dozen miles northeast of the (in)famous Area 51, whose existence was acknowledged by the government of the United States on 2013. Area 51 is said to be the place to go for secret experiments, high-tech weapons, aliens, and UFOs. There, at Area 51, the government developed the first airplanes capable of flying great distances and at extremely high altitudes during the Cold War. But today, this place is anything but abandoned, and according to the newest satellite images, the government is building more buildings and expanding the area of influence of this “secret” military base. Satellite images show a giant hanger being built. Among other weird buildings, there is also a pyramid shaped object at Area 51.

 

“The purpose of this facility is to construct, operate, and test a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles. Tests include, but are not limited to, airframe modifications, sensor operation, and onboard computer development. A small, manned chase plane is used to track the unmanned aerial vehicles,” reads the report Energy Department contractor Bechtel SAIC prepared in 2008 for the Yucca Mountain repository license application.

 

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Glowing Ezekiel's Wheel UFO Seen Over Lake Ontario, Canada On March 11, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 11, 2016
Location of sighting: Ontario, Canada
Source: MUFON #75149

Its actually common to see strange lights over the great lakes, but this one photo has great detail of a glowing disk on its side with a trail behind it. Yes it looks like a disk that is rotating like a wheel...an Ezekiel's Wheel. 
Great catch, 
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states:
Noticed a large bright object in the sky at high altitude above the Lake Ontario , thought to try out the iPhone camera (1st time) to perhaps catch an image of it . At 1st try realized the the flash went on automatically which I didn't want & that's when right after the 1st photo shot , to my surprise in the phone's screen I've seen the speeding one below the other large one , it left a trail & it looked quiet fuzzy obviously due to its speed . I wasn't able to follow that one in the direction it flew & I had trouble getting the correct no flash button on , lol ! Then still trying , took 2 more shots in another part of the sky & still the flash was on . I was getting upset & then finally I got the flash totally off & directed the camera to pinpoint the bright object that I originally was drawn to & took the photograph & it turned out great :) Still , I attempted to take 3 more pics but , lo and behold , the flash again came on , that's when I went inside & uploaded the photo into my computer . The sky & stars looked very nice this evening . There was an airplane in the sky , in between times trying to take those pics . Of all the total time to trying to take the images I estimate it was roughly 2 1/5 min. The large object was still in the sky when I left to go indoors . Attaching file evidence ( the full sized photo & the close-up of the bright object ).

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Giant 727 Size UFO Caught On Dashcam Over Scotland, On Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 2016
Location of sighting: Edinburgh, Scotland
News source:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3486214/Amazing-dashcam-footage-shows-UFO-hovering-busy-Scottish-motorway.html

The Daily Mail in the UK recently posted a UFO sighting caught on car dash cam in Scotland this month. The light appears over the mountain and is as big as the moon, then vanishes. Yes, these are actually seen a lot around the world.  Most often reported over Colorado, USA. 
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News states:

A shocked motorist has captured the lights from an apparent UFO on his dashcam. The video of the lights moving along the road was taken while the man was driving on the M8, close to Edinburgh. The bright lights appear to circle above the the Hermiston Gait roundabout before disappearing. Lee Frame, 32,who filmed the incident said he was certain what he saw was not a plane and told the Sun: 'The lights did not seem to be moving- they just seemed to be sat in the sky. 'I think it could have been a UFO. I just could not believe what I was seeing.' 

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Today is the 19th Anniversary of the Phoenix Lights UFO Sighting, March 13, 1997, News.

Date of sighting: March 13, 1997
Location of sighting: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Never forget. Back in 1997 tens of thousands of people saw a giant dark craft with lights move over their cities. Silent and dark, it was not noticed except with the human eye. Something that could block out the stars, should be concern for the US government...but they only want to cover it up.
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News states:
The Phoenix Lights UFO incident is a complex series of events that took place on March 13, 1997 over the states of Nevada, Arizona, and possibly New Mexico, and which would quickly become known as the "Phoenix Lights" sightings. It involved sightings by tens, or perhaps even hundreds, of thousands of witnesses on the ground, and it gave rise to a storm of controversy over what had caused the event.

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13-03-2016 om 11:52 geschreven door peter  

Manitobans Have Seen Thousands of UFOs Over Two Centuries

A UFO researcher based in Winnipeg has collected data over the years and found out that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have been spotted more than 2,000 times in the skies of Manitoba in the last 200 years.

Known for his comprehensive UFO research, Chris Rutkowksi has been gathering data from UFO reports throughout Canada since the 1980s, and he has prepared the Canadian UFO Survey every year for the last 25 years.

Just this year, he also examined historical records, media reports, American and Canadian military and government documents, and private databases in his home province. The findings were published on his Ufology Research blog just recently.

Based on his findings, he concluded that many of the UFO reports are explainable as satellites, planes, and stars. He believes that Manitobans are not being invaded, but share the global phenomenon for many years.

The reports range from unusual lights moving in the skies to abduction claims. Rutkowksi said that 17.5 percent of them were under the classification of unexplained.

Rutkowksi gathered 767 reports from Winnipeg out of 2,023 in total. He also discovered that UFO reports peak across the province in July and August.

Rutkowksi, who published several books on UFOs, hopes his specific data in Manitoba will encourage other UFO researchers to do the same in other areas of Canada. He’s hoping to set the pace for this kind of research as there has not been a study comparable to it in Canada.

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13-03-2016 om 11:41 geschreven door peter  

An artist's rendering of an exploding star. Billions of years ago, dust from a stellar explosion like this may have made its way to Earth. Credit: David Hardy View full size image

Microscopic dust grains extracted from meteorites that landed on Earth had ancient and explosive origins, scientists have discovered.

The dust grains — also known as presolar grains, since they're older than Earth's sun — were likely spewed out by stars that blew up hundreds of millions of years before Earth's solar system formed. And in a new analysis of data collected from these tiny particles, researchers have come closer to pinpointing the type of stellar blast that produced the dust, 5 billion years ago.

To trace the origins of the stardust's subatomic "fingerprints," scientists built computer models simulating the explosive conditions that could have produced them, to test whether the dust grains' point of origin might have been an exploding white dwarf star in a double-star system. [Images: Dust Grains from Interstellar Space]

Ancient grains

This study adds to decades of analysis devoted to puzzling out the age and origins of these presolar grains, according to study co-author Christopher Wrede.

Wrede, an assistant professor of physics at Michigan State University, told Live Science in an email that researchers look at the grains' isotopes — variations of an element that have different numbers of neutrons. About a dozen grains held a great deal of the isotope silicon-30, which has been linked to a certain type of stellar explosion called a classical nova.

Classical novas — stellar eruptions that happen in a binary, or paired, star system — are different from supernovas, Wrede said, in that they are a type of explosion that can happen over and over again. The smaller star in a pair, a white dwarf, steals fuel from its larger neighbor, heating up its own surface and eventually blasting dust and gas into space.

"After a classical nova, the white dwarf can continue to siphon fuel from the companion and ignite again," Wrede said. "In a supernova, the entire star explodes, so it can only happen once."

Going nuclear

When Earth's solar system was forming, collisions heated and mixed the building blocks of dust and gas, cooking them uniformly so that they shared many of the same isotopes. Grains with unusual isotopes — like silicon-30, which is rare on Earth — stand out, Wrede explained. "This tells us that they must have been produced prior to the formation of the solar system," dating back around 5 billion years, Wrede said.

According to Wrede, the high quantities of silicon-30 compared to other silicon isotopes in the grains suggested that they originated in a classical nova, but he and his colleagues were unsure just how much silicon-30 they could expect to see, relative to the other isotopes, if a classical nova were responsible. Their experiments revealed a new pathway for a nuclear reaction that would affect the amount of silicon-30 produced, and will help determine if the amount of silicon-30 in the dust grains is a match.  

"The pathway seems to be a strong one, but we'll need to do more experiments to find out how strong," Wrede told Live Science.

The findings were published online March 8 in the journal Physical Review Letters.

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Northern lights, also known as aurora borealis, appear as white streaks over Iceland, the North Atlantic and Norway in this satellite view.  Credit: NASA Earth Observatory View full size image

A NASA satellite caught a glimpse of the spectacular aurora borealis phenomenon from above on March 7, as stargazers across northern Europe viewed the brilliant shades of green and pink from their backyards.

Using a low-light sensor on the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the Suomi NPP satellite captured a view of the aurora, revealing streaks over Iceland, England, Scotland and Norway. The sensor detects dim light signals such as airglow, gas flares, city lights, and reflected moonlight but since the sensor does not distinguish between different colors of light, the aurora appears white. The image was released by NASA's Earth Observatory this week.

The aurora borealis, also known as northern lights, is a vivid demonstration of Earth's magnetic field interacting with charged particles from the sun. The charged particles are created when protons and electrons stream out from the sun's surface in massive eruptions, known as coronal mass ejections, and rush toward Earth in a steady stream called the solar wind. The solar wind slams into Earth's magnetic field, creating disturbances in the atmosphere. [Aurora Photos: Northern Lights Dazzle in Night-Sky Images]

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