In a World of Magnets and Miracles

In Norse Mythology the Aurora Borealis was said to be the light emitted by the armour of the Valkyries as they rode into battle (According to Bullfinch’s Mythology). These days, it is generally accepted that the Aurora is caused by solar winds flowing past Earth and interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field in the thermosphere. At times dancing energetically across the sky in parallel needles of intense light only to vanish in an instant, or spilling in languid, opalescent blooms that hang heavy over the sky, seeing it firsthand is entirely surreal. The above images were taken from Moholt Studentby and Ladestien, Trondheim.