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Aurora Australis means "Southern Lights", the opposite to "Aurora Borealis" in the north. (Aurora was the Roman goddess of dawn, (similar to the Greek goddess Eos) and Australis is the Latin word for South.)

The Aurora Australis are lights up in the sky that you can only see from the Southern Hemisphere. These silent 'fireworks' you often see on a clear winter night in a variety of shapes and colours! Sometimes the Aurora Australis is over 100-250 km above the ground. The aurora forms huge oval halos of radiation around the earth's magnetic poles.

The auroras can disrupt power systems, navigation systems, communications, and more.

An Aurora Australis occurs when streams of particles from the sun's solar winds hit the earth's atmosphere at an angle (as can only happen at the poles). These particles collide with atoms of the oxygen and nitrogen gases in the ionosphere and the particles glow creating curtains of blue, green and magenta. An aurora is sometimes accompanied by a crackling sound.
Like the Aurora Borealis (northern lights) but in the southern hemisphere.

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Origin: From the Latin "Aurora" = the dawn and "Australis" = Southern.

(Aurora was the Roman goddess of dawn, (similar to the Greek goddess Eos).)

So Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) mean 'the dawn of the South'.

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Both aurora appear around the polar regions. The Aurora Australis appears around Antacrtica and the Aurora Borealis appears around the Arctic.
southern lights, in the southern hemisphere, visible near the south pole (from a few thousand km)

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Aurora is the Latin word for dawn, the goddess of dawn and the morning light in Roman mythology. Australis is the Latin word for South. Terra Australis means Southern Land.

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The Aurora Australis are also known as the Southern Lights. They are the southern equivalent of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.

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