Bjørn Jørgensen: Arctic Photo

Posted by jns on 28 March 2008

A recent story from Science@NASA (“Spring is Aurora Season“, 20 March 2008) told an interesting story about how the aurora borealis seems to be more active near the equinoxes. The apparent reason has to do with “magnetic tubes” whose creation is favored when the Earth’s magnetic poles have the alignment relative to the Sun that they exhibit around the equinoxes.

Fine. Very interesting. But who could possibly pay attention to that when this was the image illustrating the article?

This stunning photograph (reduced to fit in this column better) was taken on 1 March 2008 in Tomso, Norway by photographer Bjørn Jørgensen.

His website is called “Arctic Photo” (direct to the English version).

Now, go ahead and give me one good reason why you would not want to click over to his site and see the beautiful photographs of the aurora borealis, not to mention sections like “The Sun at Night”, “Traditional Boatbuilding”, and “North Norway Winter” in his portfolio?