The red glow of the atmosphere lit up with the milky Way

January 22, Ruslan Merzlyakov went to the beach in Mulberge, Denmark to photograph the milky Way. But with the onset of darkness in the sky over North Jutland were not only the stars.

Airglow is a phenomenon that is similar to the polar lights caused by chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere, some of which occur under the influence of solar ultraviolet radiation. In the daytime the illumination is 1000 times more intense than the night, but because of the bright sunlight, you can find it only in the dark.

Glow comes in two colors: green and red. Oxygen is generated by green and red as in the picture Merzlyakov, hydroxyl radical (OH). These neutral molecules exist in a thin layer at the altitude of 85 km, where the gravitational waves give the glow wavy structure.

"The glow was really intense, and gravitational waves made it even more similar to polar lights," said Merzlyakov.

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