Photo by @babaktafreshi
The World at Night project
A few nights ago in the southeast Iceland, facing a massive glacier lit by the northern lights. When aurora is in storm level like this night it illuminates the landscape, cast shadows, and dominates the entire sky. It is much less colorful to our eyes though the green is the first you would notice. The intensity of other visible colors varies in each person while red and purple are the next colors most viewers recognize when aurora becomes very bright.
Zoom in to the image center to find the diffuse “star” with an elongated halo. This is the Andromeda Galaxy, our neighboring cosmic island, larger than the Milky Way.
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