A NASA Experiment Just Supercharged the Northern Lights in Alaska—See Photos

A NASA Experiment Just Supercharged the Northern Lights in Alaska—See Photos

The space agency’s AWESOME mission fired three rockets into the night sky in a bid to improve space weather forecasting.Courtesy of University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute Vapor tracers from the AWESOME Mission rockets seen over the Arctic Ocean from a ground station in Utqiagvik, Alaska.Just when you thought the northern lights couldn’t get any more stunning, along comes NASA to crank that dial to an 11.The space agency blasted thr…

Strange light formations were observed in the upper atmosphere over Alaska along with the auroras

Many night sky watchers in Alaska observed strange, luminous structures resembling a giant ring above their heads. What was that?Image of the luminous ring mentioned in the text. Photo credit: Eric Marshall. University of Alaska (Fairbanks).What was that ring of light over central Alaska last Saturday, 29 March, 2025? The answer, according to Spaceweather.com, was the result of a scientific experiment. It was the exhaust fumes from a sounding ro…