This photo was taken a few nights ago in Norway at the pinnacle of a solar episode. The auroras are astounding because the light that NORMALLY reaches Earth is a long, dilute umbilical chord of light stretching 93 million miles, most of which gets deflected by Earths' magnetic field.
After a period of time of stretching out and around the magnetic field, those photons of light begin to whip backwards like an elastic band and crash down to Earth in big, dense GLOBS that are visible to us as "the Northern Lights".
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