Colorful Glows: Aurora & Milky Way Galaxy over Australia

Colorful Glows: Aurora & Milky Way Galaxy over Australia

This is a view of the Aurora Australis and our Milky Way Galaxy in southern Australia near the town of Tarlee.

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.

Learn more about auroras: 
https://science.nasa.gov/sun/auroras/

Image Credit: Ian Inverarity
Location: Tarlee, South Australia, Australia
Date: May 11, 2024

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