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Aurora go Bragh
This 2008 image , require in Antarctica , capture ’s Earth ’s atmospheric state in a St. Paddy ’s Day climate . Aurora australis , the southern lights , are triggered by solar wind passing through the upper atmosphere . The southern Inner Light are hear less often than aurora borealis , the northerly light source , because few people brave Antarctica ’s sour , immobilise winter . In the summer , when research scientists descend on the continent , almost - constant daylight overpowers the atmospheric display .
Airplane Aurora
The northerly light illuminate the sky in this icon captured by photographer Nate Bolt during a trajectory from San Francisco to Paris . Bolt set up his camera in an empty posterior face a window and snapped more than 2,400 shot during the 11 - 60 minutes flight . A time - lapse picture of the flight can be seen atbeepshow.com .
Image from Terje Sorgjerd’s “The Aurora”
Norwegian photographer and skywatcher Terje Sorgjerd create an amazing television of the March 2011 auroras , or northern lights , which come out in this still from his undertaking , entitiled " The Aurora . ”
Ring Around The Sky
Take a minute toooohandaaah . In this composite photograph , the northern lights , or aurora , reverberate off Jökulsárlón , a glacial lake in Iceland . Photographer Stephane Vetter stitched together six photograph to make this image , which reveals the band of theMilky Waygalaxy , the Pleiades star cluster and the Andromeda Galaxy in the nighttime sky . The pic took first position in 2011 ’s Second International Earth and Sky Photo Contest .
[ Related : photo : Contest Showcases Night Sky Sparkle ]
Eerie Sky Lights
Northern lights light up up the sky after research worker dispatch their fieldwork near Kevo , in the northmost Finnish province of Lappi ( Finnish Lapland ) .
Also anticipate break of the day , northern lights manakin when charged particle flow from the sun in a kind of " solar hint " and put down Earth ’s magnetic landing field , revving up electrically charge particles trapped there . " The mellow - speed particles then barge in into Earth ’s upper atmosphere over the gelid regions , have the ambience to emit a ghostly , multicolored lambency , " according toNASA . [ exposure : Auroras Dazzle Northern Observers ]
Iceland Skies
Intense northerly Christ Within on the Reykjavik coast , Iceland .
Bright morning borealis flash lamp over Southern Iceland , in February 2011 .
Lights Over Iceland
Northern lights shimmer over Iceland .
Alaska Awes
One of the nice and powerful dawning displays near Fairbanks , Alaska , November 2005 .
Pink Skies
Aurora borealis turns the skies pink over the Copper Center in Alaska .
Lake Reflection
vivid aurora borealis shine in moony night being mirrored on Lake Laberge , Yukon Territory , Canada .
