<p>Even the northern lights dress in pastels for spring. A composite image of four pictures reveals the <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141111-venus-express-space-aurora-science/">auroras</a> as a palette of pale pinks, greens, and purples flickering over Iceland's Kirkjufell mountain.</p>
Night Lights
Even the northern lights dress in pastels for spring. A composite image of four pictures reveals the auroras as a palette of pale pinks, greens, and purples flickering over Iceland's Kirkjufell mountain.
Week's Best Space Pictures: A Blood Moon Rises and Auroras Dance
We see this century's shortest eclipse and the northern lights blaze over Iceland in this week's best space pictures.
We see this century's shortest eclipse and the northern lights blaze over Iceland in this week's best space pictures.
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