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Credit & Copyright: IngÑlfur Bjargmundsson
Explanation:
Yes, but have you ever seen aurora from a cave?
To capture
this fascinating juxtaposition
between below and above, astrophotographer Bjargmundsson
spent much of a night alone in the kilometer-long
RaufarhÑlshellir
lava cave in Iceland during late
March.
There, he took separate images of three parts of
the cave
using a strobe for illumination.
He also took a deep image of the sky to capture
faint aurora,
and digitally combined the four images later.
The 4600-year old lava tube
has several skylights under which stone rubble and snow have accumulated.
Oh -- the person standing on each mound -- it's
the artist.
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 8 Á Aurora around Saturns North Pole
- APOD: 2024 October 16 Á Colorful Aurora over New Zealand
- APOD: 2024 October 13 Á Aurora Timelapse Over Italian Alps
- Northern Lights, West Virginia
- Aurora Australis and the International Space Station
- APOD: 2024 June 26 Á Timelapse: Aurora, SAR, and the Milky Way
- APOD: 2024 June 12 Á Aurora over Karkonosze Mountains