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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="744"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-whatsUpInSpaceText" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(51,51,51)">What's up in space</td><td><img src="http://spaceweather.com/site_images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="28" border="0" alt=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td><td valign="top" class="gmail-storyStandardText" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </td><td valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"> </td></tr><tr><td width="2%"> </td><td width="73%" valign="top" class="gmail-storyStandardText" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div align="left"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://spaceweather.com/site_images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="7"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="76%" class="gmail-myskyAdText" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><p>Lights Over Lapland is excited to announce that we now have TWO aurora webcams covering nearly a 200° view of Abisko National Park in Sweden! Watch the auroras dance live, all season long<span> </span><a href="https://lightsoverlapland.com/webcams/">here</a>.</p></td><td width="2%"> </td><td width="22%"><div align="center"><img src="http://spaceweather.com/nublokr/lapland_ad2017_pixmap_ani2.gif" width="48" height="24" alt="" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://spaceweather.com/site_images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="1"></td></tr></tbody></table><p align="left"><strong><font color="#FF0000">THE SOLAR WIND HAS ARRIVED:</font><span> </span></strong>Earth is entering a stream of high-speed solar wind flowing from<span> </span><a href="http://spaceweather.com/images2018/13mar18/ch2_strip.jpg?PHPSESSID=tul95dk77ugkkr76u85qk8mc85">a wide gash</a><span> </span>in the sun's atmosphere. Around the Arctic Circle, this is causing auroras so bright that some observers have seen them even before nightfall. Rayann Elzein sends this picture from Inari, Finland:</p><p align="center"><img src="http://spaceweather.com/images2018/15mar18/twilight2_strip.jpg" width="520" height="373" alt=""></p><p align="left">"Yes, the solar wind has indeed arrived!" reports Elzein. "The show began as soon as the sky was dark enough to see auroras. We witnessed a very intense purple fringe against the twilight background, allowing me to tick off a dream shot from my personal bucket list."</p><p align="left">"Later,<span> </span><a href="http://spaceweather.com/images2018/15mar18/Rayann-Elzein-201803160052_REZ_8331_1521157610.jpg?PHPSESSID=tul95dk77ugkkr76u85qk8mc85">the sky exploded</a><span> </span>in very bright lights, lighting up the snow and all the landscape around me," he continues. "For a while, I got so excited that it made me forget the cold that was biting me after spending 3 hours on a frozen lake with -28°C (-18°F)."</p><p align="left">The instigating stream of solar wind is coming from an unusually wide hole in the sun's atmosphere. Earth could remain inside it for another 48+ hours. Stay tuned for<span> </span><a href="http://spaceweathergallery.com/">more Arctic lights</a>.<span> </span><strong>Free:</strong><span> </span><a href="http://spaceweather.com/services?PHPSESSID=tul95dk77ugkkr76u85qk8mc85">Aurora Alerts</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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