Bjørn Jørgensen: Arctic Photo

A recent story from Science@NASA ("Spring is Aurora Season", 20 March 2008) told an interesting story about how the aurora borealis seems to be more active near the equinoxes. The apparent reason has to do with "magnetic tubes" whose creation is favored when the Earth's magnetic poles have the alignment relative to the Sun that they exhibit around the equinoxes.

Fine. Very interesting. But who could possibly pay attention to that when this was the image illustrating the article?

This stunning photograph (reduced to fit in this column better) was taken on 1 March 2008 in Tomso, Norway by photographer Bjørn Jørgensen.

His website is called "Arctic Photo" (direct to the English version).

Now, go ahead and give me one good reason why you would not want to click over to his site and see the beautiful photographs of the aurora borealis, not to mention sections like "The Sun at Night", "Traditional Boatbuilding", and "North Norway Winter" in his portfolio?

Posted on March 28, 2008 at 18.37 by jns · Permalink
In: All, It's Only Rocket Science, Music & Art

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Saturday, 29 March 2008 at 00.16
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    Really spectacular. Wow. I also especially liked 0612_2949.jpg
    and 0612_2950.jpg. Jorgensen is an excellent photographer.

  2. Written by Melanie
    on Saturday, 29 March 2008 at 21.14
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    I agree! Gorgeous photos. Thanks for the link.

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