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Tag: aurora

“New phone cameras make the aurora accessible but the photos are not like reality”

This photo by Dominik Plüss of the St. Chrischona Chuch in Bettingen outside Basel was part of a compilation of Swiss northern light photos last week. Photo: Dominik Plüss

Ole Ellekrog

The news photographer Dominik Plüss captured the northern lights above a church in Basel, Switzerland.

Sarah wants to warn us about bad weather in space

Guest Author

Sometimes bad space weather causes our communication systems to break down – particularly in the Arctic. For this reason Ph.D. fellow Sarah Schultz Beeck is developing maps, showing where in Greenland the space weather causes bad or no connection.

Svalbard – Norway odyssey – Following the aurora from North to South

Dr. Michael Wenger

A polar expedition of a different kind is offered by the Swedish company PolarQuest, taking guests from Svalbard to northern Norway, following the magical Aurora borealis.