Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) 


It’s like the northern lights, but it’s in the south. And instead of it being green, it’s actually reddish/pink, but that’s because of the charged particles from the Sun exciting oxygen atoms high in the Earth’s atmosphere. 

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1 year ago on 03/13/12 at 10:38pm
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