Northern lights put on quite a show in Iceland

Images captured from near Gullfoss and Skaftafell in Iceland of the aurora borealis. These images were captured using multiple Digital single-lens reflex cameras or DSLR .

This video shows what happens when a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) hit Earth's magnetic field. Two days earlier, sunspot AR1692 had produced a M1-class solar flare that resulted in the CME that hit Earth. All technical descriptions aside it is really just an amazing sight to behold.



An aurora (plural: aurorae or auroras; from the Latin word aurora, "sunrise") is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth's magnetic field into the atmosphere.