aurora australis
CompareNorthern Lights
The southern lights are a luminous phenomena of assorted shapes and colours taking place 35-600 miles above the earth.
In the far north the lights are the stuff of legend and because this planet's magnetic field is just as energetic over the South Pole, down there they are the southern lights, the aurora australis.
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aurora australis
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