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Keywords: aurora, iceland
![Звездная ночь в Исландии](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/17/0001251726/aurora_vetter_900.preview.jpg)
17.05.2011
On some nights, the sky is the best show in town. On this night, the sky was not only the best show in town, but a composite image of the sky won an international competition for landscape astrophotography. The above winning image was taken two months ago over JЖkulsАrlСn, the largest glacial lake in Iceland.
![Пещера с северным сиянием](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/07/23/0001317913/cavesky_bjargmundsson_960.preview.jpg)
22.07.2014
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 RaufarhСlshellir lava cave in Iceland during late March. There, he took separate images of three parts of the cave using a strobe for illumination.
![Полярное сияние и Млечный путь на маленьком небе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/10/03/0001322547/GS_20140924_Aurora_6496_Pan2.preview.jpg)
3.10.2014
Stepping stones seem to lead to the Milky Way as it stretches across this little sky. Of course, the scene is really the northern hemisphere's autumnal equinox night. Water and sky are inverted...
![Полярное сияние надо льдом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/02/13/0001332455/LH900vetter.preview.jpg)
12.02.2015
Not from a snowglobe, this expansive fisheye view of ice and sky was captured on February 1, from Jökulsárlón Beach, southeast Iceland, planet Earth. Chunks of glacial ice on the black sand beach glisten in the light of a nearly full moon surrounded by a shining halo.
![Полярное сияние в форме флага над Швецией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/03/30/0001334570/AuroraFlag_Stalnacke_960.preview.jpg)
30.03.2015
It appeared, momentarily, like a 50-km tall banded flag. In mid-March, an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection directed toward a clear magnetic channel to Earth led to one of the more intense geomagnetic storms of recent years. A visual result was wide spread auroras being seen over many countries near Earth's magnetic poles.
![Корона полярного сияния над Норвегией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/10/14/0001323265/aurora02_albrigtsen_960.preview.jpg)
14.10.2014
Higher than the highest mountain lies the realm of the aurora. Auroras rarely reach below 60 kilometers, and can range up to 1000 kilometers. Aurora light results from energetic electrons and protons striking atoms and molecules in the Earth's atmosphere.
![Ночь над Покер Флэт](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/01/30/0001331579/PFlatLaunch_compositeJan26_0800.preview.jpg)
29.01.2015
Four NASA suborbital sounding rockets leapt into the night on January 26, from the University of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range. This time lapse composite image follows all four launches of the small, multi-stage rockets to explore winter's mesmerizing, aurora-filled skies.
![Пульсирующее полярное сияние над Исландией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/06/01/0001337353/aurora_iceland.preview.png)
1.06.2015
Why do some auroras pulsate? No one is sure. Although this unusual behavior has been known for a long time, the cause remains an active topic of research. Featured here is a dramatic video that captured some impressive pulsating auroras in mid-March over SvМnafellsjЖkull Glacier in Iceland. The 48-second video is shown is not time-lapse.
![Похожее на собаку северное сияние над Аляской](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/04/29/0001309499/auroradog_chumack_960.preview.jpg)
29.04.2014
Sometimes it is hard to believe what you see in the sky. While leading his annual aurora tour last month near Fairbanks in central Alaska, astrophotographer John Chumack and his company saw a most unusual aurora. This bright aurora appeared to change into the shape of a jumping dog, complete with a curly tail.
![Кекс из полярного сияния с глазурью из Млечного Пути](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/09/09/0001321266/auroramilkyway_strand_910.preview.jpg)
9.09.2014
This sky looked delicious. Double auroral ovals were captured above the town lights of жstersund, Sweden, last week. Pictured above, the green ovals occurred lower to the ground than violet aurora rays above, making the whole display look a bit like a cupcake.
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