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Northern lights in the sky above and the Chelyabinsk and nearby towns. A still from the video Youtube

Chelyabinsk lucky: first meteorite fall, and now the abnormal glow in the sky. That night, the residents of the city and its environs could watch last night phenomenon, similar to the aurora borealis.

sky glowed a few hours, told local bloggers, photos posted on the Web. According to witnesses, especially glow could be seen clearly in the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant.

However, scientists do not see this as anything unusual phenomenon. Research Fellow of the Astronomical Institute. Sternberg said Vladimir Surdin Business FM : «It noctilucent clouds, speaking in Russian. A vysokouchenym style – noctilucent clouds, that is, the night glowing clouds. They are observed during the summer solstice, that is, at the end of June, because there is such a unique situation in the mid-latitudes, when the sun near midnight dips below the horizon, and we think that it was night. Dark, sometimes even stellar. In fact, the sun is not so deep below the horizon, and on the north side, it illuminates the upper layers of the atmosphere – the stratosphere. Just there, at altitudes of about 80 to 90 km, these summer days every two or three years, there are these thin, translucent clouds, and the sun which illuminates. We see them as a bluish-silver clouds against the dark, sometimes even the sky. It is visible only in a narrow r ange of latitudes, the latitude of Moscow, the Southern Urals, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk ».

Chelyabinsk famous throughout the world in February of this year, when the sky above the city exploded meteorite. According to experts, it fell into the lake Chebarkul, which has become a tourist attraction.

Businessmen immediately zapatenovali trademarks “Ural meteorite”, “Chelyabinsk meteorite”, “mysterious meteorite».

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damage from the fall of the meteorite Chelyabinsk exceeded $ 1 billion. Affected more than 1.6 thousand people – were the cause of most injuries from shattered glass. 44 people were hospitalized.

last of the victims, who was hospitalized with a sliced ??Achilles tendon injury, was discharged from the hospital only on March 19.