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Pastimes : Favorite Pictures From Outer Space

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From: N. Dixon7/22/2014 9:04:35 PM
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Cave with Aurora Skylight
Image Credit & Copyright:
Ingólfur Bjargmundsson


Explanation: Yes, but have you ever seen aurora from a cave? To capture this fascinating juxtaposition between below and above, astrophotographer Bjargmundsson spent much of a night alone in the kilometer-long Raufarhólshellir lava cave in Iceland during late March. There, he took separate images of three parts of the cave using a strobe for illumination. He also took a deep image of the sky to capture faint aurora, and digitally combined the four images later. The 4600-year old lava tube has several skylights under which stone rubble and snow have accumulated. Oh -- the person standing on each mound -- it's the artist.
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