National Geographic - 8/13/13
View From Quebec
Photograph by Michel Tournay, National Geographic Your Shot
A lonely Perseid shooting star zips across a sky painted green by northern lights in James Bay, Quebec, Canada.
A giant cloud of energized particles was flung off the sun on August 7, which slammed into Earth's magnetic field on August 10, causing auroras to erupt across many northern latitude countries.
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