Imagens do Mundo - Aurora boreal - Lago Derwent water - Reino Unido

Aurora boreal sobre el lago Derwent water, cerca de Keswick, en el Reino Unido.

OWEN HUMPHREYS (AP)

Imagens do Mundo - O bébé e o pai - Manila - Filipinas

Un hombre con su bebé entre los materiales recuperados después de un incendio en el barrio de Malabon, en Manila, Filipinas.

ERIK DE CASTRO (REUTERS)

Imagens do Mundo - Peixe no esfalto - Kaili - China

Varias personas utilizan cubos para recoger peces en una carretera de la localidad de Kaili, en la provincia china de Guizhou. La apertura accidental de la puerta de un camión de transporte hizo que 6.800 kilos de pescado acabaran sobre el asfalto.

(AP)

Astronomy picture of the day - 19-03-2015 - Aurora in the Backyard

Aurora in the Backyard 
Image Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)

Explanation: On the night of March 17/18 this umbrella of northern lights unfolded over backyards in Vallentuna, Sweden about 30 kilometers north of Stockholm. A result of the strongest geomagnetic storm of this solar cycle, auroral displays were captured on that night from back and front yards at even lower latitudes, including sightings in the midwestern United States. A boon for aurora hunting skywatchers, the space storm began building when a coronal mass ejection, launched by solar activity some two days earlier, struck planet Earth's magnetosphere. So what's the name of the backyard observatory on the right of the wide field view? That's Carpe Noctem Observatory, of course.