Aurora Australis over New Zealand
Astrophotographer Taichi Nakamura: "We had a beautiful display last night starting after twilight, while the sun was still casting light on the upper part of the aurora, changing its color, and gently shifting into the dark moonless night."
Also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), auroras are colorful, dynamic, and often visually delicate displays of an intricate dance of particles and magnetism between the Sun and Earth called space weather. When energetic particles from space collide with atoms and molecules in the atmosphere, they can cause the colorful glow that we call auroras.
https://science.nasa.gov/sun/auroras/
New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and over 600 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga.
https://www.newzealand.com/us/feature/national-parks-aoraki-mount-cook/
Image Credit: Taichi Nakamura
Location: Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, South Island, New Zealand
Image Details: Canon 6D astromod 20mm f1.4 8sec ISO3200
Release Date: March 21, 2026
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