On this day in Earth's magnetosphere history - Northern Lights Aurora Borealis (May 10, 2024)

Aurora Borealis - Northern Lights

North Carolina

May 10, 2024

Seeing the Aurora Borealis for the first time – in the southern part of the U.S. - was a life changing experience.

We walked outside to our front yard as the International Space Station (ISS) made its way quickly across the sky.  Parts of the sky became translucent pink, with a little green near the horizon and whitish ‘fingers’ reaching across the sky from overhead contained within the translucent pink

With my eyes only, it looked like the remnants of a sunset, but the iPhone camera showed the amazing reality – I was seeing THE Aurora Borealis….in North Carolina! 

At the time, it felt very personal – an experience with only my husband and nature – but in the hours since, now realize this was a global, human experience – with all around the world experiencing the same sky – pink, green, whitish ‘fingers’ overhead.

I am one with all that is the universe; I trust in the wisdom of the universe.

We are one.
 

On this day in music history - The album lovestrong, by Christina Perri (2011)

lovestrong

by Christina Perri

was released on May 10, 2011.

 

On this day in music history - The album Haunted Heart, by Renée Fleming (2005)

Haunted Heart

by Renée Fleming

was released on May 10, 2005.

On this day in music history - Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs, By Susan Graham (2004)

Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs

by Susan Graham

was released on May 10, 2004.

Piano: Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

On this day in movie history - Dust Devil (1992)

Dust Devil

directed and written by Richard Stanley,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival, in France, on May 10, 1992.

Music by Simon Boswell.

Cast:

John Matshikiza, Robert John Burke, Terry Norton, Chelsea Field, Rufus Swart, William Hootkins, Zakes Mokae, Russell Copley, Andre Odendaal, Luke Cornell, Philip Henn, Robert Stevenson, Peter Hallr, Stephen Earnhart, Marianne Sägebrecht, Isaac Mavimbela, Crystal Dobson, Mickey Wenk, Stephanus Titus, Philip Notununu, A.J. van der Merwe, Marietjie Vaughn, Ursula Peveling, Erle Vaughan, Jaco Espach, Garrett Cassell, Richard Stanley.

On this day in movie history - Détective (1985)

Détective

directed by Jean-Luc Godard,

written by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Sarde, Anne-Marie Miéville and Philippe Setbon,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival, in France, on May 10, 1985.

Music by Emmanuel Chabrier, Frédéric Chopin, Ornette Coleman, Arthur Honegger, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and Jean Schwarz.

Cast:

Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday, Alain Cuny, Xavier Saint-Macary, Pierre Bertin, Alexandra Garijo, Stéphane Ferrara, Emmanuelle Seigner, Eugène Berthier, Julie Delpy, Cyrille Dajinckourt, Ann-Gisel Glass, Cyrille Autin, Erich von Stroheim.