ESOcast 78: Den lysende himmel - Airglow

ESOs La Silla Observatorium en måneløs nat, langt ude i Atacamaørkenen i Chile. Det burde være meget mørkt, men underlige grønne og røde farver flimrer over himlen. Hvad skyldes de?  Og hvorfor optræder de hyppigere? Det kan du få at vide i dette afsnit.

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Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Petr Horálek, Stefan Noll, Christopher Marshall, Richard Hook and Herbert Zodet.
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.
Music: STAN DART (www.stan-dart.com).
Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, S. Brunier, R. Wesson, C. Malin (christophmalin.com), José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org), Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE and HMI science teams, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/) ISS029-E-18677, ESA/Hubble, S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard), Y. Beletsky (LCO), John Chandler, Bill Geneczko, Oliver Holzbauer and B. Tafreshi (twanight.org).
Supported by FWF, Austria.
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.k