The giant ghostly green EAGLE over Norway: Solar storm creates spooky sky

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The giant ghostly green EAGLE over Norway: Solar storm creates spooky sky

Bjørn Jørgensen captured the amazing image above Grotfjord, Norway
Appears to show a giant bald eagle, wings spread
Caused by coronal mass ejection, or CME, from the sun

By MARK PRIGG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

While the Northern Lights are renowned for their colourful patterns, one Norwegian photographer has captured something altogether stranger.
Photographer Bjørn Jørgensen captured the amazing image above Grotfjord, Norway.
It appears to show a giant bald eagle, wings spread, eclipsing much of the sky.

While this photograph may resemble paranormal happenings or alien activity, the dramatic skyscape shown here is actually due to a much more common astronomical event known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME.
‘The day before, the Sun flung a burst of high-speed charged particles – electrons, protons and other ions – out into space,’ the European Space agency said.
Large CMEs can contain up to a billion tonnes of matter, all streaming through space at speeds of up to 2000 km/s.
These particles sped towards Earth and some of them became trapped within our planet’s magnetosphere, a region of space in which charged particles are contained by Earth’s magnetic field.
These particles then began to rain down into our atmosphere, smashing into atoms and molecules of oxygen and nitrogen in the process.
These collisions release large amounts of energy in the form of light, painting distinctive colours in the sky.
The colour depends on the particle hit.
The most common colours are the reddish-blue of nitrogen and the red or greenish-yellow hues of atomic and molecular oxygen (as seen here).
These colours can mix to produce striking shades of orange, yellow, pink and purple….More Here

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The giant ghostly green EAGLE over Norway: Solar storm creates spooky sky