NPR: ionosphere https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=801195339 ionosphere en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:56:48 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: ionosphere https://www.npr.org/tags/801195339/ionosphere A New Form Of Northern Lights Discovered In Finland – By Amateur Sky Watchers It was the members of a Facebook group who noted that the auroras they'd seen didn't look like any that had been previously catalogued. So physicists asked them to take a few carefully timed photos. Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:13:20 -0500 https://www.npr.org/2020/01/30/801195065/a-new-form-of-northern-lights-discovered-in-finland-by-amateur-sky-watchers https://www.npr.org/2020/01/30/801195065/a-new-form-of-northern-lights-discovered-in-finland-by-amateur-sky-watchers

It was the members of a Facebook group who noted that the auroras they'd seen didn't look like any that had been previously catalogued. So physicists asked them to take a few carefully timed photos.

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