Astronomer Maciej Winiarczyk captures the aurora borealis in a timelapse video shot over one night in Caithness, Scotland. As well as the northern lights, Winiarczyk manages to film 'night-shining', or noctilucent, clouds -- a phenomenon caused by sunlight reflecting off ice crystals in the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere
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