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039 Northern lights over Mývatn (Iceland) Photo by Giles Laurent
Taken on 27 March 2022, 00:24:49
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Own work, from gileslaurent.com
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Northern lights in the night sky over Mývatn (Iceland). Polar aurorae are caused by the collision of charged particles in the solar wind with gases in the upper atmosphere. These collisions generate tiny flashes of light that fill the sky with veils of colour.
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