2021 January 03 - A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 03/01/2021

In today's image, we see an aurora that has the shape of a phoenix as taken over Iceland. The pattern is actually random, but our mind like to try to make sense out of random patterns which has us seeing apparent figures like this where none is actually present. 

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