by A recent solar storm smashed into Earth and created what appeared to be bright pumpkin-colored pillars dancing in the night sky above Canada, a haunting new photo reveals.
But there is a problem with the image: Orange-colored auroras should not exist.
Instead of impossible auroras, the image actually captured a rare mix of red and green lights that hasn't been this visible since a monstrous Halloween solar storm smashed into Earth 20 years ago, experts say.
"There can be a mixing of the two processes [red and green auroras], which fools the camera and eye to believe that it is orange," Kjellmar Oksavik, a space weather scientist and aurora expert at the University of Bergen in Norway, told Spaceweather.com.
"In reality, it is both red and green at the same time."
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But there is a problem with the image: Orange-colored auroras should not exist.
Instead of impossible auroras, the image actually captured a rare mix of red and green lights that hasn't been this visible since a monstrous Halloween solar storm smashed into Earth 20 years ago, experts say.
"There can be a mixing of the two processes [red and green auroras], which fools the camera and eye to believe that it is orange," Kjellmar Oksavik, a space weather scientist and aurora expert at the University of Bergen in Norway, told Spaceweather.com.
"In reality, it is both red and green at the same time."
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