Just three months after Australians were given a spectacular light show by Aurora Australis, it’s happened again.
On Tuesday morning, people were treated to a show of nature normally reserved for those much further south. Off the coasts of Australia — from Perth to Sydney — the Southern Lights could be seen at daybreak, while New Zealand also got a fine show.
Its sister phenomenon — known as Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights — was also expected to occur in parts of the northern hemisphere Tuesday morning, in places far from its regular home of the Arctic. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center had advised Aurora watchers in the northern U.S. states to be on alert from Monday night through to Tuesday morning.
The natural occurrence was caused by an intense solar storm, which reached G4 magnitude on Monday. It happens when hot plasma bursts shoot from the sun and collide.
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