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Northern lights dance

JUL 01, 2013

DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.2043

“In my fantasy, I usually see ballet dancers in beautiful dresses” in the auroral lights, says Tatyana Kornilova, a senior scientist at the Polar Geophysical Institute in Apatity, Russia, who studies magnetospheric substorms. “My pictures are a synthesis of my professional occupation and my love for ballet.” More often than not, Kornilova deforms, clips, and combines photos of the aurora to create her dancers; her line drawings complete the pictures. Here, though, the dancer’s dress is a spectacular, unaltered image of an auroral display. More of Kornilova’s artworks may be viewed at http://kho.unis.no . (Courtesy of Tatyana Kornilova; photo by Daryl Pederson.)

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Toni Feder. tfeder@aip.org

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Volume 66, Number 7

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