tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52751 Don't mourn, organize Redbird 2020-01-31T23:34:34Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52751:2840145 2020-01-31T23:34:34Z 2020-01-31T23:34:34Z public 6 Amateur sky watchers in Finland have found a <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/01/30/801195065/a-new-form-of-northern-lights-discovered-in-finland-by-amateur-sky-watchers">new kind of aurora</a>. The amateurs not only got the professionals' attention after asking "what are these?" they worked together to take carefully coordinated photos that made it possible to identify these auroras' altitude. <br /><br />via <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/'><b>conuly</b></a></span>, whose link notes "Not Steve, another one." These newly studied auroras have been named "the dunes" (though I don't see the resemblance). Compared to "Steve" and "Hanny's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny&#39;s_Voorwerp">Thingie"</a> (named for a Galaxy Zoo volunteer), "dunes" is downright straightforward.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=redbird&ditemid=2840145" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments