Some truly spectacular timelapse video of the Aurora Borealis, aka the Northern Lights by Terje Sorgjerd.
Now how it feels to actually see one in person I can only imagine, but to do that you will have to travel close to the polar regions. ( either North or South. )
If you live in the tropics as I do and one beautiful night as you gaze into the sky see a wondrous, gigantic aurora appear, take a slow minute to enjoy the heck out of it, but beyond that panic hysterically because it means either 1) the magnetic poles of the earth are badly screwed or 2) the earth is been bombarded with unusually high volumes of fatal cosmic waves, none of which bodes well for you, I’m afraid.
By the way, if you found the music in the above video strangely familiar its because Ridley Scott used it for the soundtrack from his film Gladiator.
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April 4th, 2011 at 5:38 am
that music is killing this video for me! way too dramatic; visuals really don’t need something like that to tell you how amazing they look.
another thing, i believe that the lights were seen to be a little further away from the poles this year. i can’t remember the cause, and that’s only what i’ve read.
April 4th, 2011 at 7:56 am
Crazy… I was listening to Lisa Gerrard (an amazing artist), as I started watching this video. I was thinking the music really fit the video. Then I turned it off & played the video’s sound & realized it was Lisa Gerrard. What a trip!
January 21st, 2012 at 3:12 am
That’s incredible. Amazing photography – love how objects in the foreground and the aurora in the background both stay in focus, doesn’t seem real…