exposure of the Aurora Borealis , the Northern Lights , have become a common enough sight , but a less oftentimes see phenomenon is their Southern first cousin , theAurora Australis , which make a outstanding light show over the Antarctic desert .
Like the Aurora Borealis , the Aurora Australis come about when solar idle words stock charge speck from the sun into our atmosphere , where it reacts with the Earth ’s magnetic field . These picky images hail from Antarctica ’s Amundsen - Scott Station , home of theSouth Pole Telescope . Keith Vanderlinde of theNational Science Foundationtook these photos of the Aurora against the outstandingly clear Antarctic Skies .
[ National Science Foundationvia Sci - Fi - type O - Rama ]
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