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Hanle celebrates the new year with an auroral display

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The Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle, Ladakh celebrated the first day of the year 2025 by witnessing an aurorae yet again. An energetic CME that left the Sun on 29th December 2024 caused an intense geomagnetic storm on 1st January 2025. The aurora that resulted from this storm was captured as a video by the all-sky camera at Hanle. The low frequency radio emission from the CME was also observed and imaged at Gauribidanur Radio Observatory (GRO), and the Active Region behind this storm was imaged at Kodaikanal Solar Observatory. All three observatories are operated by IIA.