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| Lighting up the sky! Dragon's head appears from magical Northern Lights in the Arctic Circle
- The northern lights occur when highly charged electrons from solar wind interact with elements in Earth's atmosphere
- As electrons enter upper atmosphere they meet oxygen and nitrogen at altitudes up to 200 miles above Earth's surface
- Long-exposure images were captured by astrophotographer Juan Carlos Casado
PUBLISHED: 21:24 EST, 23 February 2014 | UPDATED: 03:56 EST, 24 February 2014With their vivid colours and swirling shapes, the northern lights are already considered one of the most magical sights to see.But this might just be the most enchanting sight yet - the image of a dragon's head appearing as the Northern Lights dance across the night sky. The ghostly shape of the mythical creature was formed out of swathes of green as the lights appeared in the Arctic Circle.
 +14A dragon's head appears on the horizon in Greenland - as the Northern Lights dance magical shapes across the night sky +14A view of the magical Northern Lights above a farm near the Qasiarsuq Viking house in Greenland +14A panoramic view of the Northern Lights at Tasiusaq farm in Greenland. The swathes of green bombarded the Earth's atmosphere in the Arctic Circle +14The Northern Lights decorate the sky as stars pepper the view at the Qasiarsuq Viking house in GreenlandThese long-exposure images were captured by astrophotographer Juan Carlos Casado, 55, who described them as 'mesmerising'.'Auroras make you relaxed and you dream like you are a kid,' he said.'The movements cause changing and beautiful forms within minutes, sometimes with intense colours, and if activity is high their size can completely fill the sky.'There is a sense of great joy to observe directly something you've previously only known from photographs or documentaries.'Other spectacular shapes forming included a bird above a jacuzzi full of tourists and a rainbow arching over a still fjord.
 +14Green with envy! This beautiful rainbow of northern lights arched over a still fjord at the Narsaq Peinisula in Greenland +14A view of the Northern Lights and Juan Carlos Casado, 55, at the Qaleralit Glacier in Greenland, where he captured the magical images +14These long-exposure images were captured by astrophotographer Juan Carlos Casado, 55, who described them as 'mesmerising' +14The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, occurs when highly charged electrons from solar wind interact with elements in the earth's atmosphereCasado, from Badajoz, Spain, captured the images at the Qaleralit glacier and Tasiusaq and Qasiarsuq Inuit farms in Greenland - where ancestral natives believe the auroras were their dead rising to heaven.Others were captured at Hestheimar Farm in southern Iceland.Each shot was captured using a long exposure while panoramic views were 'stitched' together, and so are 100 per cent authentic. +14Gorgeous greenery: The colour of the aurora depends on which atom is struck, and the altitude of the meeting +14As the electrons enter the upper atmosphere, they encounter atoms of oxygen and nitrogen at altitudes from 20 to 200 miles above the earth's surface +14A view of the Milky Way and the Northern Lights at the Qaleralit Glacier in GreenlandCasado added: 'The images are real photographs of several seconds of exposure. Some images are stitched shots to get panoramic views of the surroundings and the sky.'So sometimes the pictures of auroras may look faked. But really it is our vision's limit to capture the authentic splendor of the phenomenon.'The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, occurs when highly charged electrons from solar wind interact with elements in the earth's atmosphere.As the electrons enter the upper atmosphere, they encounter atoms of oxygen and nitrogen at altitudes from 20 to 200 miles above the earth's surface.The colour of the aurora depends on which atom is struck, and the altitude of the meeting. +14Out of this world! A view of the ethereal Northern Lights at the Qaleralit Glacier in Greenland +14Out of this world: A fisheye view of the Northern Lights at Tasiusaq farm in Greenland +14The Northern Lights near the Qasiarsuq Viking house in Greenland. The images were captured in Greenland and Iceland by astrophotographer Juan Carlos Casado
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2566374/Northern-lights-dragons-head-light-sky-Arctic-circle.html#ixzz2uFFqpjDp
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