Space Weather News for April 6, 2019
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ROCKETS DUMP POWDER INTO NORTHERN LIGHTS: Last night in northern Norway, scientists launched two sounding rockets into an ongoing display of Northern Lights. When they dumped their payloads of chemical powders, the sky went wild with strangely colored shapes. Police station phones lit up with reports of UFOs as squid-like figures danced across the sky. Visit today's edition of Spaceweather.com to find out what scientists hope to learn from this strange experiment.
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Above: "Blue Squids" over Norway photographed by Frank Olsen on April 5, 2019. More photos of the strange display may be found in the Space Weather Photo Gallery.
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