The dancing lights of the aurora borealis over Finnish Lapland, 2011.
I need to actually see these.
Please watch this time-lapse video if you haven’t yet: images of Earth, taken from the International Space Station, stitched together into a 60-second “flyover” that would make Superman envious.
The cities lighted; the lightning strikes; the deep, dark blue of our oceans as backdrop for white, woven clouds.
It’s a beautiful reminder that yes, we live on a dynamic, wondrous planet.
ABC’s Ned Potter: Go outside before dawn, and if the Perseid meteor shower of 2011 is good to you, you will be able to see the sky falling.
Every year at this time, the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet called Swift-Tuttle, and the result is a meteor shower — shooting stars, up to 50 or 60 per hour — streaking across the night sky as debris from the comet enters the earth’s atmosphere and burns up.
Image: A Perseid meteor on the night of Aug. 12, 2008, near Rogers Spring in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Goal for tonight: put long exposure setting on my camera to good use.
