Neo Mujico
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
andrewta@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Why does the aurora borealis appear to be white in the sky but in pictures it has nice coloration?

message-square
message-square
14
fedilink
35
message-square

Why does the aurora borealis appear to be white in the sky but in pictures it has nice coloration?

andrewta@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
message-square
14
fedilink
  • VisualBuilder4@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 year ago

    Oh. I didn’t know this was a thing. In my mother tongue (German) it is like a normal expression.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Nachts sind alle Katzen grau

      https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachts_sind_alle_Katzen_grau

      Apparently it was originally adapted from Don Quixote

    • all-knight-party@kbin.run
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m sure it is, it’s just because my first experience with it was through that letter, so now it’s ruined for me.

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml

asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it’s welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

  • !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
  • !fediverse@lemmy.ml
  • !selfhosted@lemmy.world

Looking for a community?

  • Lemmyverse: community search
  • sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
  • !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

Icon by @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 356 users / day
  • 859 users / week
  • 2.41K users / month
  • 7.31K users / 6 months
  • 5 local subscribers
  • 47.9K subscribers
  • 2.61K Posts
  • 37.1K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Evan@lemmy.ml
  • mekhos@lemmy.ml
  • Tmpod@lemmy.pt
  • OrangeSlice@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org