PULL · 17 SEP 2000

This was
your sky.

Saturnian Aurora

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COSMIC MESSAGE

Saturn's rings are a spectacular sight, but the Hubble Space Telescope's STIS instrument captured another kind of ring: ultraviolet aurora around the poles. These auroral displays extend more than 1,000 miles above the cloud tops. Like Earth's aurora, they are caused by energetic charged particles from the solar wind, funneled by the planet's magnetic field into the atmosphere.

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Saturnian Aurora
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ZODIAC CONTEXT
VIRGO

In tropical astrology, 17 SEP 2000 falls under Virgo (♍). The sign's window runs from 08-23 through 09-22. Virgo is the largest zodiac constellation, holding the heart of the Virgo galaxy cluster. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 17 SEP 2000.

THE ALMANAC FOR 17 SEP 2000
DAY
Sunday
MOON
Waning gibbous, 85% lit
POSITION
Day 261 of 366