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Northern lights enthusiasts got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing in the Alaska skies: A light baby blue spiral<\/a> resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aurora for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

The cause early Saturday morning was a little more mundane than an alien invasion or the appearance of a portal to the far reaches of the universe. It was simply excess fuel released from a SpaceX rocket that launched from California about three hours earlier.<\/p>\n

Sometimes rockets have fuel that needs to be jettisoned, said space physicist Don Hampton, a research associate professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.<\/p>\n

“When they do that at high altitudes, that fuel turns into ice<\/a>,” he said. “And if it happens to be in the sunlight, when you\u2019re in the darkness on the ground, you can see it as a sort of big cloud, and sometimes it\u2019s swirly.”<\/p>\n

While not a common sight, Hampton said he\u2019s seen such occurrences about three times.<\/p>\n

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The appearance of the swirl was caught in time-lapse on the Geophysical Institute\u2019s all-sky camera and shared widely. “It created a bit of an internet storm with that spiral,” Hampton said.<\/p>\n

Photographers out for the northern lights show also posted their photos on social media.<\/p>\n

“This all happened as it passed over Alaska during a beautiful aurora display, stunning many night-watchers including myself,” professional photographer Todd Salat, known for stunning aurora images, told The Associated Press in an email.<\/p>\n

“Trust me, at first, I was totally bewildered,” he said. “I now know it can be explained with rocket science, but during and immediately after the experience, I thoroughly enjoyed the mysterious feeling of the unknown.”<\/p>\n

The rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday night with about 25 satellites as its payload<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The timing of the fuel dump and the fact that it was a polar launch made the blue spiral visible over a large swath of Alaska. “And we got that really cool looking spiral thing,” Salat noted.<\/p>\n

In January, another spiral was seen, this time over Hawaii\u2019s Big Island<\/a>. A camera at the summit of Mauna Kea, outside the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan\u2019s Subaru telescope, captured a spiral swirling through the night sky.<\/p>\n

Researchers have said it was from the launch of a military GPS satellite that lifted off earlier on a SpaceX rocket in Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/alaska-sky-spiral-caused-spacex-excess-fuel-dump <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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