Tag Archive | BLUE AVALANCHE LIGHTS IN CHINA

SPACEWEATHER: Update, Blue Avalanche Lights

Nov27

Lights of the Unknown

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 11/27/2024

BLUE AVALANCHE UPDATE: Readers have offered many thoughtful and erudite comments about the “blue avalanche” story. Thank you! Among many excellent comments, we would like to single out this one from George Kourounis, Explorer In Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society:

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SPACEWEATHER: Blue Lights and Something Flare-y

Nov26

Lights of the Unknown

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 11/26/2024

BLUE AVALANCHE LIGHTS IN CHINA: This might be something new. On the night of Oct. 27th, Chinese astrophotographer Shengyu Li set up his camera to record star trails over Mount Xiannairi in Sichuan, China. The long exposure had just begun when an icy serac broke free from a hanging glacier. Note the blue flashes within the ensuing avalanche:

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