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An aurora [a] (pl. aurorae or auroras), [b] also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), [c] is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains ...
The solar storms of May 2024 (also known as 2024 Mother's Day solar storm [1] or Gannon storm in memory of Jennifer Gannon, [2] a space weather physicist [3]) were a series of powerful solar storms with extreme solar flares and geomagnetic storm components that occurred from 10–13 May 2024 during solar cycle 25.
English: Video of the Aurora Australis taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was taken September 17, 2011 from 17:22:27 to 17:45:12 GMT, on an ascending pass from south of Madagascar to just north of Australia over the Indian Ocean.
A photographer in Evandale, Tasmania, captured a dazzling night sky on Sunday, February 7. In timelapse footage by Ben Swanson, the aurora australis and clouds flicker against a rotating backdrop ...
A green glow from the Aurora Australis phenomenon glimmered over Hobart, Tasmania, on April 20, providing a light show for esidents under a stay-at-home order amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The video ...
Residents in Queenstown, New Zealand, enjoyed a spectacular light show from the Aurora Australis phenomenon on the evening of April 20.Daniel Phillips filmed this timelapse footage, which shows ...
English: Video of the Aurora Australis taken by the crew of Expedition 28 on board the International Space Station.This sequence of shots was taken September 11, 2011 from 13:45:06 to 14:01:51 GMT, from a descending pass near eastern Australia, rounding about to an ascending pass to the east of New Zealand.
From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles. The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the aurora australis (southern lights) on September 11, 2005, four days after a record-setting solar flare sent plasma—an ionized gas of protons and electrons—flying towards the Earth.