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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Полярное сияние над исландским ледником http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1333474/eng |
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
VatnajЖkull Glacier
a year ago January, with the
JЖkulsАrlСn 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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Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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& Michigan Tech. U.