{"id":16377,"date":"2011-05-17T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=16377"},"modified":"2011-05-17T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:50:10","slug":"our-strange-sky-the-auroral-rings-of-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/our-strange-sky-the-auroral-rings-of-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Strange Sky: The Auroral Rings of Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve returned, faithful reader! The battle for reliable Internet connectivity has been won. And the winner is everyone.<\/p>\n<p>While we get back into the groove of things, have a look at Iceland&#8217;s beautiful green sky. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110517.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/aurora_vetter_2000-e1305653998612.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"&quot;A Starry Night of Iceland&quot; Credit: Stephane Vetter (Nuits sacrees) \" width=\"600\" height=\"327\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16378\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>On this night, the sky was not only the best show in town, but a composite image of the sky won an international competition for landscape astrophotography. <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110517.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">The above winning image was taken two months ago over J\u00c3\u00b6kuls\u00c3\u00a1rl\u00c3\u00b3n<\/a>, the largest glacial lake in Iceland. The photographer combined six exposures to capture not only two green auroral rings, but their reflections off the serene lake. Visible in the distant background sky is the band of our Milky Way Galaxy, the Pleiades open clusters of stars, and the Andromeda galaxy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110517.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">APOD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve returned, faithful reader! The battle for reliable Internet connectivity has been won. And the winner is everyone. While we get back into the groove of things, have a look at Iceland&#8217;s beautiful green sky. On this night, the sky was not only the best show in town, but a composite image of the sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,265,81],"tags":[4274,1653,4272,4270,4271,3286,2187,4273,448,1637,4140],"class_list":["post-16377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-freaking-neat","category-photography","category-space","tag-andromeda-galaxy","tag-astronomy-picture-of-the-day","tag-astrophotography","tag-aurora","tag-auroral-rings","tag-beautiful","tag-iceland","tag-landscape","tag-night-sky","tag-our-strange-sky","tag-the-milky-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16381,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377\/revisions\/16381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}