28 Aug 2015Icelanders noticed an unusually vivid display of northern lights last night, a display which is also fairly unusual for this time of year. Astronomer Sævar Helgi Bragason filmed the event and posted it on the Stjörnufræðivefur website with the caption," Most amazing northern light show I've seen in years."
25 Jul 2015Digital designer Ólafur Haraldsson has recently completely compiling over 10,000 photographs taken from the International Space Station (ISS) into a special Northern Lights video.
8 Jun 2015A powerful solar storm in March caused one of the most spectacular displays of northern lights in Iceland in recent years. French photographer Stephane Vetter made this stunning video using pictures, time-lapses and real-time videos of coronal and pulsating auroras.
10 Apr 2015On the back of our pessimistic piece yesterday, Kristinn Arnar Hauksson captured this spectacular Northern Lights picture yesterday evening at Grótta on Seltjarnarnes.
30 Mar 2015This stunning time lapse was taken by ReykjavikPhoto at the beginning of February during a solar storm, a beautiful interplay between artist Ólafur Elíasson's light sequence in the building's light facade and a natural phenomenon of lights in the winter sky.
5 Mar 2015Photographer Sigurður William captured this stunning shot of the northern lights forming an aurora corona at Þingvellir national park on Saturday. This 180° panorama picture beautifully shows the green lights caused by oxygen, the purple lights from nitrate and the white which occurs when all the colours merge together.
3 Mar 2015A photograph taken by Icelandic photographer, Jónína G. Óskarsdóttir, of the famous Northern Lights has been identified by some as a vision of the ‘liver bird’, the symbol of the city of Liverpool, UK, and of the city’s world-famous football team.
2 Mar 2015Nearly three thousand tourists went on a northern lights trip with the companies Kynnisferðir and Grayline last night. They were lucky enough to witness an incredible display of light and colour in the cold March sky.
12 Feb 2015Over 1200 people went on coach tours to the west of Iceland yesterday to see the northern lights with the Gray Line tour company. Twenty four coaches were dispatched on northern lights tours yesterday, a record number according to the company.
16 Jan 2015Photographer Jón Hilmarsson captured these beautiful images of the Northern Lights above Akranes, south-west Iceland. What especially caught his eye was how much the shape of this natural phenomenon resembled the statue of Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil.
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