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[โ€“] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

Uhhhh, I saw them yesterday in northen* hemisphere in Europe and they waren't white at all... So my guess would be that it depends from where you look at it ?

But in reality they are more dull than on pictures, because photographers use Long Exposure to make the color brighter than they actually appear.

Edit: Typo

[โ€“] dingus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Uhhhh, I saw them yesterday in southern hemisphere in Europe.

Wait what? Surely something here has a typo, right???

[โ€“] lemmyarcade@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tons of people sharing pictures on reddit from this event. Apparently a large solar storm has been happening.

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The entirety of Europe is all in the Northern hemisphere, bro.

[โ€“] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago
[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe including overseas territory?

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