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Title: Simply wow
Post by: Sam on 01 February 2012, 23:38

If anyone could find a better versioin/higher res image to this I would be gratfull. The set would be good to  :smiley:

(http://chzscience.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/funny-science-news-experiments-memes-little-planet-aurora-borealis.jpg)

Title: Re: Simply wow
Post by: s-l-i-x on 02 February 2012, 12:05

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2012/01/le_petit_prince.jpg

Largest I could find  :undecided:

Title: Re: Simply wow
Post by: murraymint on 02 February 2012, 19:04

How is this done? I like  :cool:

Title: Re: Simply wow
Post by: DubFan on 02 February 2012, 19:38

Here's the website of the photographer:
http://www.astrofotografen.se/ (http://www.astrofotografen.se/)
Here's a higher resolution image:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1201/GS_20120124_Aurora_0044_Planet.jpg (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1201/GS_20120124_Aurora_0044_Planet.jpg)
Taken from the NASA site: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120128.html (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120128.html)

And a short blog article about it:
http://io9.com/5880452/this-is-what-the-northern-lights-would-look-like-from-the-little-princes-asteroid (http://io9.com/5880452/this-is-what-the-northern-lights-would-look-like-from-the-little-princes-asteroid)

A little googling goes a long way. It took 10secs to find those.

A brief read of the guys blog, and here's where you might have seen it featured:
Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2092778/World-Photographer-sticks-panoramas-aurora-create-breathtaking-image.html?ito=feeds-newsxml (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2092778/World-Photographer-sticks-panoramas-aurora-create-breathtaking-image.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)
Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/9043881/Pictures-of-the-day-27-January-2012.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/9043881/Pictures-of-the-day-27-January-2012.html)
New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/01/sky-shimmers-after-solar-storm.html (http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/01/sky-shimmers-after-solar-storm.html)
Spaceweather.com http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=25&month=01&year=2012 (http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=25&month=01&year=2012)