“This one danced and snaked its way directly below us, putting on quite a show,” said Nasa astronaut Jessica Meir, who captured a time-lapse of the southern lights as seen from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on Sunday.
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Aurora borealis, or northern lights, appear in the northern hemisphere, while aurora australis, or southern lights, appear in the southern hemisphere.
They occur near the poles because Earth’s magnetic field channels charged particles from the sun towards those regions, where they collide with the atmosphere and create shimmering curtains of colour.
“I am in awe of this ethereal and emotionally evocative phenomenon,” Meir said in a social media post.
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