NASA astronaut captures Southern Lights timelapse from SpaceX Dragon spacecraft
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Summary
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir captured a timelapse of the Southern Lights (aurora australis) from the SpaceX Dragon shuttle. The article explains that the Southern Lights are as common as the Northern Lights but less well-known due to fewer people living near the South Pole. Both phenomena occur when Earth's magnetic field channels charged solar particles toward the poles, where they interact with the atmosphere to create colorful light displays.
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· 3 pulledThe Southern Lights are just as common as the Northern Lights, and regularly take place over Antarctica
relatively few people live in latitudes close to the South Pole, so they are not as well-known as their northern counterpart
Earth's magnetic field channels charged particles from the Sun toward those regions, where they collide with the atmosphere and create shimmering waves of color
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