Aurorasaurus
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New Mexico Consortium #CitizenScience creating real-time aurora maps! Posts by @bubblyplasma, @SNHWx. https://t.co/aJjT8UOcXb, Guidelines: https://t.co/HWKwYifHUF
NMC with NASA, NSF support
Joined January 2012
Eyes on the skies! 👀If you saw the aurora last night or if you see it tonight, please make a participatory science report to https://t.co/iS0bXkmZsa! 🦕✨
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Congrats to all the Rory Award recipients and thanks again for joining us for the Report-A-Thon! 5/5
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Best new aurora experience went to Anas Dadi for this 4am photo from March 26th, 2025! 4/5
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Best aurora through clouds was "Gannon storm with Tanya and Ed" by Beth Miller! 3/5
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Each Report-A-Thon, participants submit and vote on aurora photos in several categories, just for fun. This year's Rory Awards went to: For most colors in an aurora, Kashmir Williams' May 10, 2024 "Ribbons of Color"! 2/5
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If you sign a 50 year mortgage you are an IDIOT. If you sign a 15 year car loan you are an IDIOT. Trump's economy has failed. We are a year in and everything sucks. He can't blame it on Biden anymore. But he can act like a vulture and sign poor people in need to lifetime debt.
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The results are in! Many thanks to all who attended our latest Report-A-Thon. We enjoyed connecting with other aurora lovers! Thread 1/5
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We're still dreaming of the October 10-11, 2024, aurora storm—and still accepting backdated aurora reports at https://t.co/H8M6qEdbuK! Curious about the science behind last year's superstorms? Check out this poster by postbac Feras: https://t.co/ndKFbLfbNi
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The collab we definitely need!!
NASA is launching the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe and the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory from Kennedy Space Center this week. So, Merriam-Webster and @nasasolarsystem teamed up to explore the words behind the launch!
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Online Aurorasaurus Report-A-Thon, Sat, Sept 20, 1-4pm ET (17:00-20:00 UTC)! Bring your photos with verified locations/times–2024 welcome! Help gather data, ask questions, and hang out with a community of aurora lovers. There will be prizes! REGISTER: https://t.co/KJ4OSAzt7y
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We were excited to verify this observation and are excited to see it discussed at length in the recent comprehensive article by Lockwood et al.
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ABSTRACT. We survey 223 916 auroral records from the Northern hemisphere observed between 1650 January and 2024 July, making full allowance for the secular
" الفلكية العُمانية" تحصل على توثيق علمي من وكالة " ناسا لرصدها ظاهرة الشفق القطبي https://t.co/GKy4BbNynq #العُمانية
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Online Aurorasaurus Report-A-Thon, Sat, Sept 20, 1-4pm ET (17:00-20:00 UTC)! Bring your photos with verified locations/times–2024 welcome! Help gather data, ask questions, and hang out with a community of aurora lovers. There will be prizes! REGISTER: https://t.co/KJ4OSAA0X6
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Online Aurorasaurus Report-A-Thon, Sat, Sept 20, 1-4pm ET (17:00-20:00 UTC)! Bring your photos with verified locations/times–2024 welcome! Help gather data, ask questions, and hang out with a community of aurora lovers. There will be prizes! REGISTER: https://t.co/KJ4OSAA0X6
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Three of Jupiter’s four largest moons - Io, Europa, and Ganymede - produce distinct auroral signatures. But Callisto has always remained a mystery... until now. Thanks to NASA's Juno Mission, we have finally captured its faint auroral signature—completing a decades-long search.
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Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the Solar System. Near its poles, these shimmering lights offer a glimpse into how the planet
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al-Julani is visiting America. He's in D.C. He was in the gym, playing basketball with some high-ranking military guys, generals. al-Julani is the president of Syria, and Trump says he's a nice-looking guy, big and strong, which impresses Trump. Trump has commented on al-Julani's
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Online Aurorasaurus Report-A-Thon, Sat, Sept 20, 1-4pm ET (17:00-20:00 UTC)! Bring your photos with verified locations/times–2024 welcome! Help gather data, ask questions, and hang out with a community of aurora lovers. There will be prizes! REGISTER: https://t.co/KJ4OSAzt7y
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Online Aurorasaurus Report-A-Thon, Sat, Sept 20, 1-4pm ET (17:00-20:00 UTC)! Bring your photos with verified locations/times–2024 welcome! Help gather data, ask questions, and hang out with a community of aurora lovers. There will be prizes! REGISTER: https://t.co/KJ4OSAA0X6
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New blog post: what can our field learn from psychology? Cofounder of positive psychology Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi studied happiness in "flow", an in-the-zone, joyful experience that sounds awfully familiar to aurora chasers. Read on: https://t.co/ZYAUxXQgel Image: @YEGHugo
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Attention #spacewx modelers/developers, forecasters, & end-users! Are you interested in helping advance the O2R cycle in space weather? If so, please consider submitting a response to our survey: https://t.co/0hlGnxhKjk Deadline: August 18th, 23:59pm ET.
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Aurora photographers may be interested! https://t.co/MDPG5Fahhg
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Our annual photo contest celebrates the power of the night sky with astrophotography and related photos. It’s free to enter and open to all ages.
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NASA’s TRACERS spacecraft have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Next destination: space! 🚀 TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) are a pair of spacecraft that will orbit Earth to study magnetic reconnection —
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A team from @UofMich is working with @NASA to create a new approach to measure Earth’s magnetic fields by developing a new system that can both take scientific measurements and provide spacecraft attitude control functions. Learn more: https://t.co/q4omSxFxDN
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