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Posted at 06:15 PM ET, 10/06/2010

Stunning image: Aurora over Alaska

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* Equinox sunrise | Otto forms: Hurricane Tracking Center *
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Via NASA:

Are those green clouds or aurora? Photographed above two weeks ago, puffy green aurora help the Moon illuminate the serene Willow Lake and the snowy Wrangell and Saint Elias Mountains in eastern Alaska ...

The photographer, Paul Alsop, is a doctor from the United Kingdom.

By  |  06:15 PM ET, 10/06/2010

Categories:  Photography

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