Aurora Borealis over Senja Island, Norway | Earth Science
Photographers Księżyc & Słońce & Łukasz Jankowski: "The largest CME impact event of this cycle occurred on Monday. This photo from Senja Island was taken from that moment."
Also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), auroras are colorful, dynamic, and often visually delicate displays of an intricate dance of particles and magnetism between the Sun and Earth called space weather. When energetic particles from space collide with atoms and molecules in the atmosphere, they can cause the colorful glow that we call auroras.
https://science.nasa.gov/sun/auroras/
Two main types of explosions occur on the sun—solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Unlike the energy and x-rays produced in a solar flare that can reach Earth at the speed of light in eight minutes, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are giant clouds of solar material that take one to three days to reach Earth. Once at Earth, these ejections, can impact satellites in space or interfere with radio communications.
Senja (Norwegian) or Sážžá (Northern Sami) is an island in Senja Municipality in Troms county, Norway in northern Europe.
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast.
Image Details: Sony A7m4 + Sony 20mm Panorama, 1-second exposure, ISO 800 F 1.4
Photographers' website: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61585514386493
Date: Jan. 19, 2026
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