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| A Starry Night of Iceland (May 17, 2011) |
If this is what it looked like to the people that were there, I'm taking a vacation to Iceland!
Friday, September 9, 2011
APOD 1.2
This photo was actually a winner of the International Earth and Sky Photo Contest, and I can see why! This photograph depicts the auroral rings over Jökulsárlón, the largest glacial lake in Iceland. Within the ring, one can see the band of the Milky Way Galaxy and the Pleiades open clusters if stars. Aurora rings are caused by solar winds and blasts of charged particles from the Sun.
If this is what it looked like to the people that were there, I'm taking a vacation to Iceland!
If this is what it looked like to the people that were there, I'm taking a vacation to Iceland!
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