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Credit & Copyright: James Boardman Woodend
(Images Inspired by Nature)
Explanation:
Several key conditions came together to create this
award-winning
shot.
These included a dark night, few clouds, an epic auroral display, and a body of water
that was both calm enough and unfrozen enough to show reflected stars.
The featured
skyscape of activity and serenity appeared over
Iceland's
VatnajÆkull Glacier
a year ago January, with the
JÆkulsÀrlÑn Iceberg
Lagoon captured in the foreground.
Aurora
filled
skies continue to be
common near Earth's
poles as our Sun,
near Solar Maximum, continues to expel
energetic clouds of
plasma into the Solar
System.
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: aurora
Publications with words: aurora
See also:
- APOD: 2024 January 14 Á Dragon Aurora over Iceland
- APOD: 2024 January 3 Á A SAR Arc from New Zealand
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- The SAR and the Milky Way
- APOD: 2023 November 5 Á Creature Aurora Over Norway
- APOD: 2023 October 22 Á Ghost Aurora over Canada
- APOD: 2023 April 19 Á Auroral Storm over Lapland