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Huge thanks to The Reading Agency for including Out of the Blue, by Stef Murphy and me, in their February booklist! I’m proud to see it standing alongside these brilliant books, to be enjoyed during LGBTQ+ History Month and beyond!
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February 25, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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Dragon Aurora over Iceland - ©
Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng

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Have you ever seen a dragon in the sky? Although real flying dragons don't exist, a huge dragon-shaped aurora developed in the sky over Iceland in 2019. The aurora was caused by a hole in the Sun's corona that expelled charged particles into a solar wind that followed a changing interplanetary magnetic field to Earth's magnetosphere. As some of those particles then struck Earth's atmosphere, they excited atoms which subsequently emitted light: aurora. This iconic display was so enthralling that the photographer's mother ran out to see it and was captured in the foreground. Our active Sun continues to show an unusually high number of prominences, filaments, sunspots, and large active regions as solar maximum approaches in 2025.
January 14, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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The Sun and sunspots in white light. 1229UT 14 January 2024. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography
An orange Sun with multiple sunspots on a dark background.
January 14, 2024 at 1:41 PM