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Nasa got by far and away the best picture of the Northern Lights last night

Published 08:17 28 Feb 2014 GMT

Updated 16:26 14 Nov 2014 GMT

Conor Heneghan
Nasa got by far and away the best picture of the Northern Lights last night

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Wow.

The rest of Ireland was just a bit tiny bit jealous of Donegal last night as pictures began to surface on social media of the Northern Lights that were visible from parts of the county, such as a quite beautiful one sent into us by photographer Rita Wilson yesterday evening. It wasn’t just around here that Aurora Borealis was visible as there were numerous sightings in Britain as well, but you won’t see a better picture of them than the one that was taken from a NASA satellite last night.   Judging by a tweet from the NASA account (redirected from the account of astronaut Mike Hopkins) last night, it seemed that the southern lights weren’t all that bad to look at either (we love the first question underneath)...     A great night for stargazers all round.

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Nasa got by far and away the best picture of the Northern Lights last night