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An aurora (pl. aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), 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, rays ...
Oct 14, 2009 · Aurora australis (also known as the southern lights, and southern polar lights) is the southern hemisphere counterpart to the aurora borealis. In the sky, an aurora australis takes the shape...
Keep your eyes peeled for one of nature’s most magnificent shows. By Georgia Rickard. Like its Northern Hemisphere counterpart ( Aurora Borealis ), the Southern Lights ( Aurora Australis) illuminate the night sky with flickering shades of green, blue, purple and red.
It said due to continued geomagnetic activity, aurora sightings will be possible at low-latitude locations across Australia on Sunday night including southern New South Wales, Tasmania, southern Victoria and southern and northern Queensland.
Aurora Australis above Kinross Cottage, Gibbston Valley, New Zealand. By Mitch Serbu. The skies light up with amazing shimmers of pink, red, green and even purple light, when solar winds pass through the atmosphere and react with the Earth’s magnetic field. In March and September, during the equinoxes, the Earth’s two magnetic fields (the ...
Aurora australis is visible from Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and Chile. For aurora enthusiasts in Australia, your best bet for viewing spots are Tasmania and the southern coast of Victoria.
2 days ago · Aurora Alerts are issued when space weather activity favourable for viewing aurora is in progress. When an alert is current the alert information indicates the latitudinal range in terms of high, middle, low and equatorial regions where aurora may be visible under good observing conditions.
Aug 16, 2017 · Here is your complete guide to what the aurora australis is, where you can find it and how you can photograph it.
May 17, 2023 · The aurora borealis and aurora australis have dazzled us in the night sky for centuries. Here’s what causes them—and why we’re seeing them more lately.
The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) and Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) are the result of electrons colliding with the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. (Protons cause faint and diffuse aurora, usually not easily visible to the human eye.)
