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On Feb. 1, the comet appeared shortly after nightfall, and as the sunlight waned, the aurora began to glow. In the Southern Hemisphere, this is known as the southern lights, or the aurora australis.
Aurora australis visible in the background. Star trail photography on salt lake in Lut desert in Iran A star trail is a type of photograph that uses long exposure times to capture diurnal circles , the apparent motion of stars in the night sky due to Earth's rotation .
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.