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Hi, I saw this picture during a google search and wanted to know who took it, but I cannot find a source (the best shot being the universetoday article, which cites NASA, but I haven't found it or anything similar by NASA). I am also getting the increasing impression that the image might be fabricated and not a photograph of a real event. This impression has developed because all the credible images I have seen of the aurora which searching do not seem to exhibit such a clear single band and the band tends to be thicker on the dark side and almost inexistent on the light side of the earth. Also the picture could not have been taken from the ISS, since it flies too low for such an angle on earth, which is where most of the aurora pictures from space seem to come from. Take this with a grain of salt, though, since I have no scientific expertise in the area whatsoever. I am curious to hear what you think about this :D Téleo (discuss • contribs) 17:36, 15 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Try contacting Bob King, the author of the Universe Today article. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 21:40, 15 April 2021 (UTC)