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Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter
(Nuits sacrées)
Explanation:
What's happening in the sky?
On this cold winter night in Iceland, quite a lot.
First, in the foreground, lies the largest
glacier in
Iceland:
Vatnajokull.
On the far left, bright green
auroras appear
to emanate from the glacier as if it was a
volcano.
Aurora light is reflected by the foreground lake
JÆkulsÀrlÑn.
On the far right is a long and unusual
lenticular cloud tinged with green light
emitted from another aurora well behind it.
Just above this
lenticular cloud are unusual
iridescent lenticular clouds displaying a
broad spectral range of colors.
Far beyond the lenticular is the setting
Moon,
while far beyond even the Moon are
setting stars.
The above image was captured in late March of 2012.
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