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Astronomy & Astrophysics SA

Locality: Somerton Park, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 7127 7089

Address: 30 College Road 5044 Somerton Park, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.estateservices.com.au/

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21.01.2022 APOD: A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland (2021 Jan 03) Image Credit & Copyright: Hallgrimur P. Helgason; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt https://apod.nasa.gov/apo...d/ap210103.html Explanation: All of the other aurora watchers had gone home. By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet September night, much of that night's auroras had died down. Suddenly, unexpectedly, a new burst of particles streamed down from space, lighting up the Earth's atmosphere once again. This time, surprisingly, pareidoliacally, the night lit up with an amazing shape reminiscent of a giant phoenix. With camera equipment at the ready, two quick sky images were taken, followed immediately by a third of the land. The mountain in the background is Helgafell, while the small foreground river is called Kaldá, both located about 30 kilometers north of Iceland's capital Reykjavík. Seasoned skywatchers will note that just above the mountain, toward the left, is the constellation of Orion, while the Pleiades star cluster is also visible just above the frame center. The 2016 aurora, which lasted only a minute and was soon gone forever -- would possibly be dismissed as an fanciful fable -- were it not captured in the featured, digitally-composed, image mosaic. Annotated Image: https://apod.nasa.gov//PhoenixAurora_Helgason_960_annotate https://www.facebook.com/Icelandic.Photos http://geckzilla.com/ Starship Asterisk* APOD Discussion Page http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210103 #APOD

08.01.2022 America Wants to Put a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon https://www.popularmechanics.com//america-nuclear-power-p/

03.01.2022 Jan 2nd, the start of the astronomical new year, the perihelion point. https://www.secretsofuniverse.in/january-2021-astronomical/