Posted on 05/17/2011 4:23:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
[Credit: Stephane Vetter (Nuits sacrees)] Explanation: On some nights, the sky is the best show in town. On this night, the sky was not only the best show in town, but a composite image of the sky won an international competition for landscape astrophotography. The above winning image was taken two months ago over Jökulsárlón, the largest glacial lake in Iceland. The photographer combined six exposures to capture not only two green auroral rings, but their reflections off the serene lake. Visible in the distant background sky is the band of our Milky Way Galaxy, the Pleiades open clusters of stars, and the Andromeda galaxy. A powerful coronal mass ejection from the Sun caused auroras to be seen as far south as Wisconsin, USA. As the Sun progresses toward solar maximum in the next few years, many more spectacular images of aurora are expected.
(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...
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Your links work fine.
Too bad that picture wasn’t available yesterday when the FReepathon hit “green.”
Wow — is that the shape of the new Volkswagen bug?
Absolutely breathtaking. Thanks for posting this beauty.
Beautiful
Awesome !
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