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Beautiful Photos of Northern Lights Taken From On Flight From Reykjavik, Iceland to Manchester, UK
Passengers aboard easyJet flight 1806 from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Manchester, U.K., got a special view of the intense auroras produced during a geomagnetic storm on Monday.
The pilot made a small loop in the flight path to ensure passengers could see the aurora borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, on Monday.
Photos shared by Twitter user @STICKA84 show a view of the Northern Lights over the wing of the plane midflight.
The geomagnetic storm produced bright auroras that were visible much farther south than usual overnight Sunday and Monday.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Space Weather Prediction Center reported a strong geomagnetic storm overnight Sunday into Monday. The storm was rated G3, or strong, on a scale with G5 being the most extreme.
The SWPC said ongoing storming was likely to produce moderate G2 conditions Tuesday. The agency said the storms strength comes from a combination of solar events occurring simultaneously.
High solar wind speeds were already forecast due to a hole in the suns corona producing a recurrent high-speed stream, and two coronal mass ejections occurred on Feb. 25 and Feb. 26. The second CME was produced by a medium-intensity M6.2 solar flare, the agency said.
