by APOD Robot » Sun Jan 03, 2016 5:11 am
A Starry Night of Iceland
Explanation: 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
featured winning image was taken in 2011 over
Jökulsárlón, the largest
glacial lake in
Iceland. The photographer combined six exposures to capture not only two green
auroral rings, but their reflections off the serene lake. Visible in the distant background sky is the band of our
Milky Way Galaxy and the
Andromeda galaxy. A powerful
coronal mass ejection from the Sun
caused auroras to be seen as far south as
Wisconsin, USA. Solar activity over the past week has
resulted in auroras just over the past few days.
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