'This one danced and snaked': Nasa astronaut captures aurora australis from space – video | Nasa | The Guardian
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'This one danced and snaked': Nasa astronaut captures aurora australis from space – video
Nasa astronaut Jessica Meir, part of the SpaceX Crew-12 mission, released a timelapse showing the southern lights as seen from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. They appear near the poles because Earth's magnetic field channels charged particles from the sun toward those regions, where they collide with the atmosphere and create shimmering curtains of colour. 'As opposed to the previous aurora I’ve seen, this one danced and snaked its way directly below us, putting on quite a show. I am in awe of this ethereal and emotionally evocative phenomenon,' Meir wrote on social media
Source: NASA/Jess Meir<br>Tue 9 Jun 2026 21.20 EDTLast modified on Wed 10 Jun 2026 08.02 EDT
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