VIDEO: Northern Lights in NASA pictures
The famous Northern Lights. Photo: Garðar Ólafsson
Digital designer Ólafur Haraldsson has recently completely compiling over 10,000 photographs taken from the International Space Station (ISS) into a special Northern Lights video.
The video is the newest exhibit at the Aurora Reykjavik: Northern Nights Centre museum and is a time-lapse consisting of photographs obtained from NASA and ordered to make them look like a moving video.
According to Haraldsson, the piece took a month to make. The background music to the magical images is by Ólafus Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen.
You can see the video yourself below:
Aurora from the International Space station from Olafur Haraldsson on Vimeo.
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