THIS LOOKS LIKE THE FIRST TIME I SAW THE NORTHERN LIGHTS WHEN I LIVED IN ANCHROAGE IN 1989...... VERY BEAUTIFUL AND EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THESE ONCE IN THEIR LIFETIMES..
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How awesome is God to create such beautiful things for us to behold!!!
The HEAVENS declare HIS GLORY!!!
This picture should have been included in the picture of the week, its beautiful, and part of nature. It is more than "eye candy."
Seeing the Aurora for the first time is a sobering experience. I lived in Alaska for 3 years and never grew tired of it - it was worth going out in 40 below weather to watch them cascade across the sky. It is one of the few things you will see which you have never seen before either live or on film. this is an awesome image, perhaps the best I've ever seen of them, but it still pales in comparison with the real thing.
I have been in Alaska for 32 years and it still gives me goose bumps everytime I see northern lights. Stan
Wow! This is better than all the pictures that were in this weeks running!
I took my 80 yr old grandmother to Iceland last year to see the Aurora because it was one of the things she has wanted to do for 30 years, and no one in my family would go with her to Iceland in December. They all missed out on quite possibly the most beautiful sight in the world.
A wonderful display of the earth's electromagnetic forces at work! And people say there's no beauty in physical science!
This is not "candy". It's spinach for the eyes! Wow. How did you pass this one by?
WHAT AN AWESOME GOD WE SERVE. ALL THE GLORY BE TO THE MAKER OF THE HEAVENS! JESUS THE CHRIST. ETERNAL LIFE & A GLORIOUS ETERNITY.
IN THE BEGINNING, The Flying Spaghetti Monster reached out His Noodly Appendage - Behold The Appendage in all Its glory.
For all the 26 years I've lived in Alaska, I have never grown tired of standing under the winter skies with the Aurora Borealis swirling and dancing around me. The purples, greens and yellows become electric and you can feel yourself becoming caught in their magical current. Nothing I have ever experienced compares, and no photograph does justice to such a beautiful sight.
Remarkable, this picture bears witness to the Glory of the God that I serve. He is great and woderous to be praised. He is Lord of Lord and King of Kings, Jesus the Christ!!!!!
I find it disgusting that truly gorgeous pictures like this aren't featured in 'week in pictures', but multiple political images that have no business in a photo lineup like this are. Get rid of the political pictures, msnbc. Week in pictures should be about beauty or truly touching images, not a way for msnbc to push their political opinions.
Besides the sky display, I like the photographer's choices of foreground lighting.
I saw a fantastic display in Pennsylvania about 30 years ago when I was in my early teens. Luckily we lived on a farm in a light-noise free area. The richness of the colors against a starry sky is indescribable.
I don't serve any God. But nature sure is beautiful.
One thing that I've noticed about the Week in Pictures is that the general public often picks the most optimistic or uplifting pictures in each week's set. When the Critics' Picks come out at the end of the year, they are invariably have a theme of tragedy and despair. This reveals a great deal about the respective mindset of the general public and the so-called "intellectual elite" that feels impelled to rule over us.
Nothing is more insprational than nature in it's purest form, and this is stunning! Alaska is on my short list of places to visit.
How do we get our kids interested in the sciences if editors won't include such magnificent evidence of science's wonders, such as this?
Hi!! That is a very nice picture of the Aurora Borealis!!! I "WAS" used to watching the auroras come up on a site this wonderful guy had set up on Mt. Aurora, Fairbanks, Alaska!! he had a web cam set up and would turn it on at night for a live broadcast of the auroras!! it was wonderful to experience what I had never gotten to see before!! He had a very nice site for watching this display!! The way he had it set up there was even a chat and the cam side-by-side so you could talk to people while you were waiting to see the auroras!! Because of this I was able to make a lot of new aquaintances from all over the world! It was an International site!!! I made some very nice friends! Stachu, Jabudaby,Australis, Budwigg, Upstate Dave, Aris, Auroratex, SusiQ, Iridiumking,Alaskamoe,Quietwolf,AKSid, Kik,(K2sleddogs),Wichita John, Aunt Maggie, Tarmo, Daddeo, and Troy, and many, many others!!! We even formed a yahoo group called Aurora_Fan_Club!! But Troys' site was so great!! It had a forum too so we could talk or leave messages for each other!! Boy those were the days!! All the soda pops, popcorn, bailed taters, snickerdoodles, tyin dave to his chair lol!! Trains, and planes, and fish stories!! Yeah the jokes and camaraderie would fly!! Then it would happen! An aurora would start to make it's presence known to us!! We would get so excited over it!! Unfortunately Troy wasn't able to continue maintaining his site due to the cost of equipment, and time because of his new job, plus always helping his mom and dad to run their business, which is a ski resort up there on Mt. Aurora! I think that all would agree that we miss this trememndously!!!! Wish there was some way to re-generize our beloved site www.aurorawebcam.com This would have been my fourth year as an avid aurora watcher.. :o( (is missin it and wishin it was back..) This was a magical experience and a neat way to make such good friends! Sincerely, Kentuckashee aka Jeannie of Kentucky
It is hard to see how this one escaped. Wouldn't it be great to compare this w/ the Southern Lights?
Does anyone else see the head and face of a turtle in this image? Eerily beautiful!
It is truly sad that it didn't make the cut, I look every week at the Week in Pictures, and vote, and this one likely would have been the one. Outstanding photo. To see these in person is something to behold, they have a sound if they are close to the ground. I lived some years in Fairbanks, and it is the ONLY thing I miss about winter up north!!
Believe it or not you don't have to go to some far off wilderness like Alaska to see this beautiful thing. My family saw the Northern Lights right here in Washington State (home of MSNBC.COM). My son called from his home about 20 miles south of Seattle and said look up in the sky! My wife and I saw it all the way over in Ellensburg, 100 miles east of Seattle. It was, as everyone else says, a once in a lifetime experience, and we saw it from our own backyard!
I shot this photo, a friend of mine told me it was posted here. I sure appreciate all of your nice comments, it was a very nice display and nights like these make the long cold winters go by much easier. Thanks to AP & MSNBC for posting it. Bob Martinson, Wasilla, Alaska.
Mr. Martinson - what a wonderful photo you shared with us. God bless you !!!
Thank you, Mr. Martinson. It's gorgeous!
I wish I can see an aurora for real. It's one of the things I WILL do before I die. hehe. Absolutely stunning, isn't it? The beauty of our world, and how much responsibility we have for cherishing and protecting it.
I LOVE NATURE, EVERYTHING. THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE AND I ALSO HOPE TO SEE THIS BEFORE I LEAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET. THANKS AND THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE LIST!
Back in the 50's, as an 8 year old just being an 8 year old, I saw the lights. Of course I didn't know what it was and had to ask my mother. I don't mention it much because people don't believe that I could possibly have seen the aurora in my back yard in KANSAS. We lived in the country,(10 miles from the nearest town of any size) and this was way before the rural population exodus so there was no interference from city lighting. This is a magnificent photo and took me right back to my childhood. Thank you so much.
I was fortunate to see the Northern lights when I lived in Iceland. I just wish I had a good enough camera to take my own pictures. But what a beautiful thing to see.
I find one of the comments very interesting. Of course by its very name, the Week In Pictures should be primarily a forum for photojournalism about specific events that happened throughout the week. In this country in an election year, that definitely includes many political happenings. Perhaps there should be a forum for just "Photography of the Week," but I don't see how that fits MSNBC's mission as a news organization. That's more for a photography digest or some other type of site. MSNBC is doing a good job overall of showing us impressive photos of newsworthy events.
ITS like the lights are giving us a signal or somebody's message from upthere
this reminds me that there are still wonderful things in our world.
How amazing nature is. One time a few years ago we were able to see the Northern Lights here in Va because the atmosphere and temp were perfect. Aparently they could be seen as far south as the Carolinas.
God did not make this. It is a scenfic fact that it is caused by the earths magnetic poles redirecting plasma particles from the sun! It is merely just proof of how science explains pure beauty of life, not god!
What an awesome wonder of nature and handiwork of God. THIS is exactly the reason I want to visit Alaska before I die. Wonderful image.
BEAUTIFUL it's a wonderful pic!
Absolutely gorgeous.
Hey KnowingisBelieving, who do you think made the magnetic poles and plasma particles? things like this just do not happen, what a miracle! do not let this pass you by..God Bless
Science at its best. A beautiful image of natural design. Little wonder how physics aligns to create such beautiful images. How solar winds and the earths magnetic poles join together into science and art is just fascinating.
Looks like something I'd hallucinate after drinking too much Hypnotiq...really beautiful, though, like a bridge of emeralds in the sky.
I might see the face of a teenage mutant ninja turtle if that is what your talking about.
This is an awesome picture.
Beautiful shot! I saw the A.B. once, a friend called me in the middle of the night and told me to go outside. I did. It was so beautiful, I went back inside to wake all four of my children so they could see it too. Wish I had taken a picture!
Glory for shiva for the wonder of the heavens. Praises to krishna whose grandeur surpass even this.
One things on my list to see before I die. Picture touches deep in the soul. Simply beautiful. Great photo!
wish I had a lens like that. far out!
Nature declaring Yahweh's wisdom. To deny this is innexcusable.
All of the scientific explanations for natural occurances...yet I have never once seen anyone's "god" credited in a science book. All that talk about electrons jumping energy levels, then returning the energy as visible light, plasma trails, gravity, chloroplasts, etc...but a "god" made those too. It's a nice catch-all; explains everything.
This is beautiful. Equally beautiful are some of the comments posted here. I have to laugh when anyone attributes a beautiful (or terrible) natural phenomenon to a God or gods. It makes me think of some primitive man sitting in the shadow of a cold cave shaking his fist in ignorance. What we do not understand is not divine, it is merely our own ignorance in an infinite universe.
Awesome.
