Behold: Flowing green ribbons of the Southern Lights 🌟⁣ ⁣ This week in 2011, astronauts on the International Space Station (iss) captured several hundred photographs of the Aurora Australis, or “Southern Lights,” while passing over the Indian Ocean.⁣ ⁣ Auroras are a spectacular sign that our planet is electrically and magnetically connected to the Sun. These light shows are provoked by energy from the Sun and fueled by electrically charged particles trapped in Earth’s magnetic field, or magnetosphere. In this case, the space around Earth was stirred up by an explosion of hot, ionized gas from the Sun—a coronal mass ejection—that left the Sun on September 14, 2011.⁣ ⁣ Image credit: NASA⁣ ⁣ #nasa #space #iss #exploration #auroraaustralis