Northern lights: pale green and yellow rays fan upward from a glowing arc over dark trees, under a starry teal sky, with an orange glow at left.

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No. 206 of 248 · The Natural History Series

The Northern Lights

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E. L. Trouvelot's aurora borealis sends pale rays of green and gold fanning up over a dark line of trees, beneath a sky full of stars. Trouvelot drew this aurora in Massachusetts and studied the heavens through the great telescopes at Harvard, working in pastel. For someone who loves the night sky.

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From the great astronomy books of the 1800s / THE NORTHERN LIGHTS / Aurora borealis / The northern lights glow when particles from the sun strike the air high above the Earth. Trouvelot drew this aurora in Massachusetts, its rays rising over the trees. / The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, 1881-82 / E. L. Trouvelot drew the sky through the great telescopes at Harvard; his pastels were printed in colour by Charles Scribner's Sons.

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