ESOcast 78: Airglow
Channel: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Date: 2015-11-04

ESO’s La Silla Observatory on a moonless
night, deep in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
It should be very dark -- but strange green
and red colours can be seen to shimmer in
the sky. What are these mysterious glows? And why
do they seem to be getting more frequent? Find out more in this episode.

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Credit:
ESO.

Editing: Herbert Zodet.   
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.   
Written by: Petr Horálek, Stefan Noll, Christopher Marshall, Richard Hook and Herbert Zodet.   
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.   
Music: STAN DART (www.stan-dart.com).   
Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, S. Brunier, R. Wesson, C. Malin (christophmalin.com), José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org), Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE and HMI science teams, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/) ISS029-E-18677, ESA/Hubble, S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard), Y. Beletsky (LCO), John Chandler, Bill Geneczko, Oliver Holzbauer and B. Tafreshi (twanight.org).   
Supported by FWF, Austria.   
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.   
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.