The Aurora Australis or Southern Lights are mesmerizing, dynamic displays of light that appear in the Antarctic skies in winter. They are, in effect, nature's light show; visual poetry penned from the quantum leaps of atmospheric gases.
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Aurora (astronomy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Auroras , sometimes called the northern and southern (polar) lights or aurorae ( singular: aurora ), are natural light displays in the sky, usually observed at night, particularly in the pol...
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Aurora Australis (icebreaker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Aurora Australis is an icebreaker under the command of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Designed as a multi-purpose research and resupply ship, it was built by P&O Polar and launched in ...
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Night Sky Images by Stephen Voss ... The Best of; This links to a page of my favourite aurora images captured of the last 7 years ... The Complete List; This links to a page that catalogues every auroral display imaged to dat...
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Aurora Australis photos, and how to take them. Ruapehu photos and how to climb to the summit. New Zealand Artists, Animals, Plants and environment, Culture, and related sites. ... Lots more about Aurora Australis more about my astronomy (my Halleys comet photo)
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Aurora Australis - Astroearth ... Aurora's are very common especially in the southern parts of Australia. Called Aurora Australis in the Southern Hemisphere and Aurora Borealis in the northern hemisphere.
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Like the Aurora Borealis, the Aurora Australis occurs when solar winds carry charged particles from the sun into our atmosphere, where it reacts with the Earth's magnetic field. These particular images come from Antarctica's Amundsen-Scott Station, home of the South Pole Telescope.
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Time-lapse footage of the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights. This is the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Filmed during the Antarctic winter in the general vicinity of McMurdo Station and Scott Base, where the sun is below the horizon for 4 months of the year.
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Australia’s Aurora Australis and collaborating vessels L’Astrolabe (France) and Umitaka Maru (Japan) have returned from the Southern Ocean, their decks overflowing with a vast array of ocean life including a number of previously unknown species collected from the cold waters near the East Antarctic land mass.” Some...
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