Puny Planet Aurora

Immersed in an eerie greenish light, this rugged diminutive planet looks to be home to pleasing water falls and an impossibly sizable mountain. Or not it is planet Earth obviously. On the night time of November 9 the nadir-centered 360 stage mosaic used to be captured by digital camera from the Kirkjufell mountain situation of western Iceland. Curtains of vivid Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights present the pale greenish illumination. The extraordinary auroral show used to be precipitated by solar assignment that rocked Earth’s magnetosphere in early November and produced stable geomagnetic storms. Kirkjufell mountain itself stands on the tip of the stereographic projection’s circular horizon. Northern hemisphere skygazers will acknowledge the acquainted stars of the Colossal Dipper factual above Kirkjufell’s height. At decrease legal the compact Pleiades superstar cluster and if truth be told giant planet Jupiter furthermore shine on this diminutive planet’s night time sky.