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Alan Friedman/ Not the Great Pumpkin / 20 October 2010
It's not the great pumpkin Charlie Brown, just a portrait of the sun in the wavelength of hydrogen alpha light. This solar portrait enjoyed a viral run on the web in early November, making appearances on Discover , Wired , The Huffington Post , NPR and many international newspapers as well. The week of attention brought a quarter million page visits back to this website and resulted in a Today Show interview with MSNBC .From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles.
