APOD 2.2

On the summit of the Austnesfjorden fjord close to the town of Svolvear on the Lofoten islands in northern Norway a man is raising his arms after waiting for three nights for the aurora. This aurora is happened in early march during a time of maximum surface activity on the sun in its 11- year cycle. This fantastic green aurora reflects off the ice giving everything including the mountain a nice green glow to it.

APOD 2.1

This picture is a very spooky picture of a portion of the Veil Nebula. This nebula is made up of the remnants of a supernova (star explosion). The entire constellation takes up 3 degrees of the night sky in the constellation Cygnus. The part that we are looking only takes up about the size of the moon. The Veil Nebula is about 12 light years away from earth. The picture is colored so that hydrgen atoms give are shown in red while oxygen is showed in blue hues.