The night sky over Alaska during the Northern Lights seen unusual spiral As is known, a complex pattern formed in the sky due to the release of fuel by the first stage of the SpaceX spacecraft.
Explorer and photographer Todd Salat captured a spiral in the sky against the backdrop of the top of Donnelly Dome, an ancient glaciation that formed about 100,000 years ago.
According to the author of the picture, at first he thought that the ornament in the sky was due to a flying plane, but soon the spiral began to grow. After a few moments the bright glow of the northern lights disappeared and the drawing was no longer visible.
According to space physicist Don Hampton, professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the strange spiral cloud was formed by the launch of the Falcon 9 spacecraft: a few hours ago, a SpaceX rocket soared into the sky on the other side. In the United States, in California.
After the rocket’s launched upper stage flew over Alaska and released unused fuel, the spectacular pattern formed and the cloud turned into a spiral due to the rotation of the module.