Sentences with phrase «aurora australis»

When that happens, the gas bubble compresses and energizes Earth's magnetic field, slamming charged particles into the upper atmosphere and forming the auroras (aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere and aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere).

In the meantime he and his crew members do get to enjoy the almost otherworldly aurora australis, or southern lights.

In the south, it is called aurora australis, or southern lights.

A display of aurora australis, or southern lights, manifesting itself as a glowing loop, in an image of part of Earth's Southern Hemisphere taken from space by astronauts aboard the U.S. space shuttle orbiter Discovery on May 6, 1991.

The most energetic particles can «leak out» of the belts and strike the Earth's upper atmosphere, causing auroras, known as aurorae borealis in the northern hemisphere and aurorae australis in the southern hemisphere.

The aurora borealis and their Southern Hemisphere counterparts, the aurora australis, arise when charged particles from the sun buffet Earth's magnetic field.

A research team led by Timothy J. Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center analyzed images from NASA's Polar spacecraft and the IMAGE spacecraft taken of both the northern (aurora borealis) and southern (aurora australis) lights.

The aurora australis lights up the dark sky above the South Pole.

Auroras — both the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere and the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere — appear when charged particles from the sun, carried by a solar wind, run headlong into the Earth's own magnetically charged atmosphere.

Also known as the aurora australis.

The auroras, both surrounding the north magnetic pole (aurora borealis) and south magnetic pole (aurora australis) occur when highly charged electrons from the solar wind interact with elements in the earth's atmosphere.

The aurora borealis (the Northern Lights) and the aurora australis (the Southern Lights) have always fascinated mankind, and people even travel thousands of miles just to see the brilliant light shows in the earth's atmosphere.

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, in the Northern Hemisphere and the aurora australis, or southern lights, in the Southern Hemisphere are visible light emissions caused by the collision of charged particles (ions and electrons) from the solar wind with the upper atmosphere of Earth.

Australia is a little further north, so it might be safe, but New Zealand's Maori have legends about the aurora australis, so they are likely to get hit.