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Anchorage Sunset

Photo: Sunset of the Anchorage skyline is extraordinarily brilliant because forest fires, north of the city, have emitted smoke into the atmosphere
Sunlight filtered through smog paints the sky over Anchorage, Alaska, tangerine. Forest fires north of the city released clouds of smoke into the atmosphere, which produced the dazzling display.
Photograph by George F. Mobley

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