Last Saturday (February 18), a group of scientists sent a two-stage, suborbital rocket from a research station (Poker Flats, near Fairbanks, Alaska) into the aurora borealis to gather data on the phenomena.

The fish eye photo was taken by Donald Hampton, and I found it here.

The picture was taken as the Terrier-Black Brantt rocket passed through the aurora borealis approximately 350 kilometers into the sky.