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April Fools Day!

Sorry. Couldn’t resist.

Those words will ever be printed for real.

Here are some unbelievable pictures of the Northern Lights. Links at the bottom are the most spectacular photos and are protected by copyright so they have to be viewed at Flickr. Well worth a few minutes. The last view resemble nothing else.

Picture taken at Tältlägret, near Abisko, Kiruna Kommun, Lappland, Norrbotten, Sweden

Photo by GERRIT (Copyright CC-attribution/share alike)

The image is part of a SciTechLab.com blog post on the Northern Lights.

Corona Aurora
Credit: NASA/J CURTIS of U Alaska/ACRC

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska

Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman JOSHUA STRANG

The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake here January 18, 2005. The lights are the result of solar particles colliding with gases in Earth’s atmosphere. Early Eskimos and Indians believed different legends about the Northern Lights, such as they were the souls of animals dancing in the sky or the souls of fallen enemies trying to rise again.

Queen Cassiopeia in the constellation Cassiopeia.

Th Bigdipper in the constellation Ursa Maje Little Dipper in the constellation Ursa Minor. The North tar (Polaris) is at the end of the handle (lower right).Queen Cassiopeia in the constellation Cassiopeia.

Fish-eye lens view of the Northern Lights taken mid July 2004.

Credit: PHILIPPE MOUSSETTE at Observatoire Mont Cosmos, Quebec, Canada

Lights along the northern horizon give an orange cast to the low clouds while alluring green and purple hues of the aurora borealis or northern lights glow powered by energetic particles at the edge of space.The Big Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major is on the left and on the right is Queen Cassiopeia in the constellation Cassiopeia. Between them in the middle, is the Little Dipper in the constellation Ursa Minor. The end of the Little Dipper’s handle is Polaris, known as the North Star.

Cool igloo - Northern Yukon, Canada
Hicker Photo.com

These photos are in a league of their own:
Totally wild electric green (Finland)
Thick green beam (Prelude Lake, Northwest Territories)
Royal blue sky with teal swirls at (Thingvellir, Iceland)
Spectacular colors: rose stripe of sunset, royal blue sky with stars and green streaks through the moonlit trees
Almost indescribable alien landscape: molten greenish-gold metal with blackish starry sky mirrored on the water (Þingvellir, Iceland)
Luminescent green broad arcs reflecting on the water - looks almost perfectly symmetrical with a strip of dark green/black land in the middle - like he folded it over. (Lapland)
Absolutely amazing neon green completely fills the sky (Lapland)
Violet rays purple sky

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Pix of the day: Aurora Australis - Southern Lights
Pix of the day: Eye of God