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Night Auroras as they appeared from across the hemisphere
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If you saw it firsthand then you had no choice but to notice it, but for the rest of us who weren’t so lucky, here’s the deal: yesterday a coronal mass ejection, a.k.a. a CME, a.k.a. a solar storm or a huge burst of solar wind emanating from our sun slammed into our atmosphere at about 2 p.m. EDT. That mass of charged particles compressed Earth’s magnetic field and sparked a pretty intense geomagnetic storm, resulting in what you see here: breathtaking auroras that are usually confined to high latitudes spilled out across North America, reaching as far south as New Mexico and Alabama.
Ålesund, Norway Northern Lights
Make the world more beautiful:the art of Omaha’s grain elevators
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A too-big-to-demolish, multi-silo grain elevator in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, has been given an a-maize-ing makeover thanks to Stored Potential, an ingenious visual project that will give local artists both amateur and professional some truly towering exposure.
Aim High, Silo
How does one re-purpose a huge, abandoned, mid-20th-century grain elevator? The question looms ever larger when the grain elevator in question squats a mere stone’s throw from Omaha, Nebraska’s city center and is seen by an estimated 76,000 highway commuters each and every day.
Icelandic Ash Plume Blasts Through the Cloud Layer, as Seen from Space
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Eruption of Iceland’s Grímsvötn Volcano Captured on May 23rd, 2011, this image shows the massive cloud of volcanic ash spewed into the air above Iceland by the Grímsvötn volcano.
Japan’s artistic gas storage tanks
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Oh The Humanity !
Is there anything in Japan that doesn’t sport a smiley face? The list is certainly short – and it just got shorter, thanks to the nice people at Shibata Gas. Like so many Japanese companies, Shibata Gas shows a friendly face to the public by employing a mascot, in this case “Nicotan”. That’s Nicotan’s blissful visage above, gazing out from the side of a gas storage tank in Japan’s Niigata prefecture, in the country’s northeast.