Aurorasaurus @TweetAurora

New Mexico Consortium #CitizenScience creating real-time aurora maps! Posts by @bubblyplasma, @SNHWx. https://t.co/aJjT8UOcXb, Guidelines: https://t.co/HWKwYifHUF Aurorasaurus.org NMC with NASA, NSF support Joined January 2012

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Aurorasaurus @TweetAurora

3 days ago

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: bit.ly/reportsept25

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a week ago

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: blog.aurorasaurus.org/?p=2260 Image: @YEGHugo

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Carina ☀️ Alden @SpaceWxRina

a month ago

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: bit.ly/O2RSurvey Deadline: August 18th, 23:59pm ET.

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2 months ago

Aurora photographers may be interested! capturethedark.darksky.org/contest2025

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ARCHIVED - NASA Sun & Space @NASASun

3 months ago

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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ARCHIVED - Dr. Nicky Fox @NASAScienceAA

3 months ago

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: science.nasa.gov/science-resear…

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Aurorasaurus @TweetAurora

3 months ago

While we're waiting with bated breath for CME arrival sometime tomorrow, a quick reminder that if you try to view the aurora, you can make an aurora report to aurorasaurus.org for science! ✨🦕

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Vincent Ledvina @Vincent_Ledvina

4 months ago

No, you didn’t see STEVE this weekend.. you actually saw the first sighting of WILBUR (White Ionized Launch Byproduct Upper-atmospheric Ribbon), STEVE’s adopted son.

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ARCHIVED - NASA Sun & Space @NASASun

4 months ago

Do THESE look familiar? 👇 If so, you could help @DoNASAScience! Noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds are the world’s highest clouds, forming between about 47 to 53 miles up in Earth’s mesosphere. Their high altitude (and their ice-crystal composition) allows them to reflect…

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Aurorasaurus @TweetAurora

4 months ago

So much possibility to @DoNASAScience with these incredible images and so wonderful to have such a talented photographer on orbit. Some incredible aurora images!

Don Pettit @astro_Pettit

9 months ago

So much possibility to @DoNASAScience with these incredible images and so wonderful to have such a talented photographer on orbit. Some incredible aurora images!

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Vincent Ledvina @Vincent_Ledvina

4 months ago

This is the extent to which the aurora was seen one year ago today. One of the largest aurora events in all of recorded history, actually. The different colors of dots represent the dataset used to log the reports.

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4 months ago

NASA’s PUNCH Catches First Rainbow and Other New Images science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/20… via @NASA

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Aurorasaurus @TweetAurora

4 months ago

It's an aurora-versary! We are grateful to everyone who submitted reports--both during the storm and afterward--you made it our biggest reporting day in the history of Aurorasaurus! Stay tuned in the coming months for news on our May storm data processing efforts... 👀

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4 months ago

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Aurorasaurus @TweetAurora

4 months ago

This is an incredible mega-thread!

Vincent Ledvina @Vincent_Ledvina

4 months ago

This is an incredible mega-thread!

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Aurorasaurus @TweetAurora

4 months ago

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NASA Citizen Science @DoNASAScience

4 months ago

That’s a wrap on Citizen Science Month—and we crushed our goal of #OneMillionActsOfScience! Because of you, discoveries were made, mysteries explored, and lives protected. This is what science looks like when everyone gets to participate. 💫 Keep going: science.nasa.gov/citizen-science

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NASA Citizen Science @DoNASAScience

4 months ago

Launching today! 🚀 Join Galaxy Zoo to help identify the shapes of galaxies in over 500,000 @NASAWebb images, many of which have never before been seen by human eyes! Together, we'll study how galaxies have changed over billions of years. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3SahwSD

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Aurorasaurus @TweetAurora

4 months ago

In the aurora chasing community, we celebrate how this beautiful phenomenon brings us together. Participants in this year's Winter Field School felt the same! Read their moving epiphanies in our latest blog post: blog.aurorasaurus.org/?p=2178

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NASA Citizen Science @DoNASAScience

5 months ago

This 4th week of #CitizenScienceMonth, we’re highlighting how NASA #CitizenScience helps solve real-world problems to protect life on Earth. Stay tuned as we share two powerful ways volunteers are making a difference—right here on our home planet: science.nasa.gov/citizenscience