Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 January 5 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. A Starry Night of Iceland Image Credit: [3]Stephane Vetter ([4]Nuits sacrees) Explanation: On some nights, the sky is the best show in town. On this night, the sky was not only the best show in town, but a composite image of the sky [5]won an international competition for landscape astrophotography. The [6]featured winning image was taken in 2011 over [7]Jkulsrln, the largest [8]glacial lake in [9]Iceland. The photographer combined six exposures to capture not only two green [10]auroral rings, but their reflections off the serene lake. Visible in the [11]distant background sky is the band of our [12]Milky Way Galaxy and the [13]Andromeda galaxy. A powerful [14]coronal mass ejection from the Sun [15]caused auroras to be seen as far south as [16]Wisconsin, USA. As the Sun progresses away from its [17]current low in surface activity toward a [18]solar maximum a few years away, many more [19]spectacular [20]images [21]of [22]aurora are expected. Tomorrow's picture: jupiter tumult __________________________________________________________________ [23]< | [24]Archive | [25]Submissions | [26]Index | [27]Search | [28]Calendar | [29]RSS | [30]Education | [31]About APOD | [32]Discuss | [33]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [34]Robert Nemiroff ([35]MTU) & [36]Jerry Bonnell ([37]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [38]Specific rights apply. [39]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [40]ASD at [41]NASA / [42]GSFC & [43]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix2015.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2001/aurora_vetter_2000.jpg 3. mailto: stephane dot vetter at wanadoo dot fr 4. http://www.nuitsacrees.fr/ 5. http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/news.asp?newsID=6065 6. http://www.nuitsacrees.fr/mars-2011-photo15.html 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jökulsárlón 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_lake 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland 10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap021015.html 11. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html 12. http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/galaxy.html 13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2PCFsY521o 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070206.html 15. http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01mar11_page3.htm 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191028.html 18. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/solar-cycles/en/ 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100917.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091219.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071009.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050807.html 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200104.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix2015.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 27. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 30. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 32. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200105 33. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200106.html 34. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 35. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 36. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 37. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 38. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 39. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 40. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 41. https://www.nasa.gov/ 42. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 43. http://www.mtu.edu/