In early February, fast solar winds brought beautiful northern lights to North America and Europe.
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City lights and shipping traffic mark one of the world’s major economic crossroads.
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Through Italy’s Smart Road Decree, the city was chosen as a test site for autonomous driving vehicles.
The storm is poised to hit the Korean Peninsula, making it the third typhoon to encounter the peninsula in just two weeks.
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A satellite acquired this nighttime view of the storm two hours after landfall.
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Hurricane Laura is poised to cause an unusually large and damaging storm surge.
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The Suomi NPP satellite got a clear view of Western Europe, its nighttime lights, and its moonlit landscape.
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Bright lights of these coastal cities of China are sandwiched between mountains and the sea.
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The category 1 hurricane is headed for a brush with Florida’s Atlantic Coast.
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A satellite caught a glimpse of the aurora australis over the Southern Ocean in July 2020.
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Heavy rains and winds may result in flash flooding, landslides, and life-threatening surf conditions.
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Bright shades of white and yellow light up the geographic and political heart of Turkey.
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Divided by the Danube River, the city is actually a unification of three different older communities.
A layer of marine stratocumulus clouds off the west coast of Africa displayed some particularly complex wave patterns.
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The category 5 storm wreaked havoc on the small island nation in the South Pacific.
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Night lights not only speak to where we live, but how.
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The waxing gibbous Moon and the snow and ice on the mountains and lakes give the landscape extra visual definition.
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Astronaut Christina Koch snapped a picture of the Quadrantids in January 2020.
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At the boundary between Earth and space, particles and gases and energy do an intricate and colorful dance that varies daily.
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A blast of cold air from Canada is fueling lake effect snow in several states.
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A winter storm brought flash flooding, heavy snow, and hurricane-force winds to the Pacific Northwest.
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Fire managers warned of “the most dangerous bushfire week this nation has ever seen.”
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A new study shows that nocturnal animals are less active when the nights are too bright with electric lighting.
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Power outages piled up in Charleston County as the storm raged just offshore.
Fire season peaks every August in some parts of southern Africa.
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The fire is tearing through pine forests in mountainous terrain on the second most populous of the Canary Islands.
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A common cloud pattern, known as von Kármán vortices, makes an appearance at night.
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The powerful storm, one of the worst to hit India since 1999, knocked out electricity across the state of Odisha.
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Just five weeks after enduring the worst natural disaster in its recorded history, the African country is facing another serious storm threat.
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A stunning aurora appeared over Hudson Bay in March, historically the most geomagnetically active month.
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