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Rare White Auroras spotted over Norway.🤩
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— omgisme (@omgisme.bsky.social) 2026-06-08T19:10:47.397Z
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(131,798 posts)It's been kicking around the Internet for years, not AI at first (made with fluorescent lights), but more recently enhanced. "The images were created by a person in Russia with the username NeverSmile. He posted them (and 9 more) at https://www.yaplakal.com on July 16, 2010. ...There are no white auroras. What you are seeing is not actually white but most likely a pale green. To quote Dr. Tony Phillips at SpaceWeather, Auroras get their colors from specific elements in Earths upper atmosphere. Green auroras, for instance, come from atomic oxygen; blue is associated with molecular nitrogen. No element produces white."
https://explorenorthblog.com/the-white-aurora-the-internets-most-successful-aurora-hoax/
Just to be sure, I checked the major Norwegian news outlets, Aftenposten, Verdens Gang, and NRK. No mention of white auroras, which would have been a very big deal if it had happened. Here's a nice, normal, green one, though. https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/QMp2dW/kraftig-solstorm-kan-gi-spektakulaert-nordlys-over-hele-norge