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Katy Perry bigs up 18-yr-old Norwegian ‘angel’

American superstar Katy Perry has deployed the mighty power of her world-beating Twitter account to anoint a fresh-faced 18-year-old from Bergen as pop’s next big thing.

Published: 5 March 2015 21:53 CET
Katy Perry bigs up 18-yr-old Norwegian 'angel'
Aurora Aksnes looking Nordic in the video for Runaway. Photo: Screen Grab
Perry, who with her 66 million followers is easily the most followed person on the micro-blogging network, broadcast her admiration for Aurora Aksnes late on Wednesday. 
 
Aurora Aksnes, who goes by the stage name AURORA released the single "Runaway”, at the end of last month. 
 
She was nominated as Rookie of the Year in 2014 by NRK’s P3 station, and is signed to Decca Records. 
 

NORTHERN LIGHTS

IN PICTURES: Spectacular light display in skies above northern Sweden

Aurora-gazers in the far north of Sweden were treated to a truly incredible sight on the early hours of Saturday morning.

Published: 8 April 2019 17:43 CEST
Updated: 9 April 2019 08:13 CEST
IN PICTURES: Spectacular light display in skies above northern Sweden
The lights created by the rockets resembled a bright blue rain cloud. All photos: Lights over Lapland

The bright blue bursts resembled a rain cloud, which was visible roughly between 12.24am and 1.04am in the Abisko National Park, and the display was caused by two rockets.

“The lights turned out to be a pair of rockets that were launched into space to research the Northern Lights,” explained photographer and guide Chad Blakley, from the Lights over Lapland tour company, who shared the sequence of images with The Local.

“The name of the sounding rocket mission is AZURE — short for Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment. Its goal is to measure winds and currents in the ionosphere, an electrically-charged layer of the Earth's atmosphere where auroras appear,” explained Blakley.


All photos: Lights over Lapland

They did this by releasing two chemical tracers which created the colourful clouds — without posing any hazard to local residents. 

“It looks like the Space Invaders game I played as a kid,” said one Facebook commenter, while another compared the blue lights to jellyfish.

GUIDE: How to take the best pictures of Scandinavia's northern lights

 

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