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Aurora over Olnes Pond, Alaska (October 8, 2012) (by Taro Nakai)
Friday March 16, 2012 10:30pm Alaska time. Photo by UAF photographer Todd Paris.
Recent sun flares are causing spectacular auroras. In The Place Where You Go to Listen, a sound and light composition by John Luther Adams, the activity produces music like this.
Stunning Photos of the Northern Lights Floating Over an Icelandic Volcano - “Most photographers would be happy to capture a photo showing just the northern lights or lava leaping out of a volcano crater. Photographer James Appleton managed to capture a series of beautiful photographs that show both in the same frame. The images were made at Fimmvörðuháls in Iceland.”
via PetaPixel.
Coronal aurora over Fairbanks, Alaska (January 22, 2012) (by Micrometeorologist)
The greatest light show on Earth
The Poker Flat Research Range’s location in central Alaska makes it the perfect place to study, and film, the Aurora Borealis. So filmmakers headed there to capture footage both of the natural phenomenon and the scientists’ explosive experiments for the BBC series Frozen Planet. They worked with a team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute - the only academic institution in the world with its own scientific rocket-launching facility. (Source: BBC)
