The
images at right of Earth's aurora borealis — the shimmering lights
created by particles of solar wind crashing into the polar atmosphere — were taken on April 9 by the UltraViolet Imager, an instrument on board
nasa's polar satellite.
Push through a dark curtain, and you emerge blinking into a dark space lit by a huge, elemental orange sun, glimmering against a black background: Katharina Sieverding's projection Die Sonne Um Mitternacht Schauen, SDO /
NASA (Looking at the Sun at Midnight), 2011 - 12, which uses high - resolution
Nasa images to
create a dramatic, up - close
image of the sun's surface.