If this stunning image of the Northern Lights looks too good to be true, then that might be because it is... almost.Photographer Stephane Vetter combined six exposures to capture not only two green auroral rings, but also their reflections off Iceland's largest glacial lake.
He took his photographs during a visit to the lake, Jökulsárlón, two months ago.
In the distant background, the band of our Milky Way galaxy, the Pleiades open clusters of stars and the Andromeda galaxy are all visible.
The result, which Mr Vetter named A Starry Night Of Iceland, won a prize for landscape astro-photography at the recent 2011 Earth and Sky Photo Contest.
The Northern Lights are formed when particles thrown out of the sun into deep space meet with Earth's magnetic shield and create a circle around the magnetic North Pole when they interact with the upper layers of the atmosphere. Read More
