Video: A “rather faint” coronal mass ejection from the Sun last Thursday arrived at Earth over the weekend, and brought with it a proton arc — an especially rare bright display of the Aurora Australis, the ethereal lights in the sky over extreme southern latitudes of Australia and the Antarctic…
The infrared eye of the Suomi NPP satellite captured this amazingly atmospheric light show created by the southern lights — aka aurora australis — over Antarctica before dawn on June 24, 2015.