Northern lights as you have (probably) never seen them before
By Kelly Oakes
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American
Chances are, unless you've been lucky enough to see them in person, you will have seen the northern lights in a time lapse video online. But have you ever seen them just as they would play out in real life?
Kai-Marius Pedersen is a northern lights hunter who records videos of real time aurora. No distracting music, no montages containing weeks worth of images in a few minutes. This is his first real time aurora video from a few months ago:
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And his second is even more spectacular:
I have a lot of time for polished videos and grand effects, but sometimes it's nice to get as close to the real thing as possible.
Note: The featured image for this post is a view of the northern lights from the International Space Station. A real view that you've almost certainly never seen before...
(via @cosmos4u)
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