Phone cameras can take in more light than the human eye − that’s why low-light events like the northern lights often look better through your phone camera

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"Smartphone cameras have significantly improved in recent years. Computational
photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can
surpass what we see with the naked eye. Photos of the northern lights, or
aurora borealis, provide one particularly striking example.

If you saw the northern lights during the geomagnetic storms in May 2024, you
might have noticed that your smartphone made the photos look even more vivid
than reality.

Auroras, known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights
(aurora australis) occur when the solar wind disturbs Earth’s magnetic field.
They appear as streaks of color across the sky.

What makes photos of these events even more striking than they appear to the
eye? As a professor of computational photography, I’ve seen how the latest
smartphone features overcome the limitations of human vision."

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