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Fires in the Sky: Aurorae and Meteor Photo by Ole Salomonsen

September 20, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A bright fireball slashes through curtains of aurorae shimmering above the mountains of northern Norway, captured on camera by Ole C. Salomonsen in the early hours of September 20. Salomonsen, a master at photographing the Northern Lights, says this was the [...]

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Grab a seat for the Celestial Lights show!

April 18, 2012

Painstakingly assembled from over 150,000 digital photos taken over the course of eight months, this stunning time-lapse video of aurora-filled Arctic skies is the latest creation by photo/video artist Ole C. Salomonsen. Take a moment, turn up the sound, sit back and enjoy the show! Remove this ad

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Valuable Space Rock Crashes Into Oslo Cabin

March 12, 2012

A family in Oslo got a surprise when they visited their allotment garden cabin for the first time this season and found that a 585-gram (20 oz.) meteorite had ripped a hole through the roof. The space rock was discovered “lying five or six metres away,” the cabin’s owner, Rune Thomassen, told the local newspaper [...]

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Hauntingly Beautiful Aurora Video

February 6, 2012

Time-lapse photographer Christian Mülhauser braved sub-zero temperatures and frozen camera equipment to capture this stunning aurora footage from Norway during the last week of January 2012. Powerful solar storms in January made for some impressive auroral displays… thanks to Christian for capturing them on camera! Remove this ad

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The Meteor and the Nordlys

October 22, 2011

A meteor slices through the glow of the northern lights (or “Nordlys”) in this photo by Adon Buckley, taken near the border of Norway and Finland on the night of October 19, 2011. Remove this ad

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