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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                 2025 December 12   
      
                                Northern Fox Fires   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen   
      
      Explanation: In a Finnish myth, when an arctic fox runs so fast that   
      its bushy tail brushes the mountains, flaming sparks are cast into the   
      heavens creating the northern lights. In fact the Finnish word   
      "revontulet", a name for the aurora borealis or northern lights, can be   
      translated as fire fox. So that evocative myth took on a special   
      significance for the photographer of this northern night skyscape from   
      Finnish Lapland near Kilpisjarvi Lake. The snowy scene is illuminated   
      by moonlight. Saana, an iconic fell or mountain of Lapland, rises at   
      the right in the background. But as the beautiful nothern lights danced   
      overhead, the wild fire fox in the foreground enthusiastically ran   
      around the photographer and his equipment, making it difficult to   
      capture in this lucky single shot.   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: ocean of storms   
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