Astronauts on the International Space Station captured these views of the aurora australis and wildfires in Australia.
Published Sep 27, 2011
The colors and altitude are often the same, but the atmospheric processes are different.
Published Aug 16, 2020
Solar storms smacked into Earth’s magnetic field and provoked auroras over the southern and northern hemisphere just after the summer solstice.
Published Jun 28, 2015
The Suomi NPP satellite captured a glimpse of the northern lights over North America.
Published Apr 24, 2018
From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles. The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the aurora australis four days after a record-setting solar flare sent plasma flying towards the Earth.
Published Jan 25, 2006
Photographers captured these digital photos of a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket and the aurora borealis on December 12, 2010, during the NASA-funded Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling (RENU).
Published Jan 4, 2011
A sinuous green aurora appears above a deck of clouds in this dramatic astronaut photograph from May 29, 2010.
Published Jun 21, 2010
A geomagnetic storm in early October lit up the skies with northern lights that were detected by an Earth-observing satellite.
Published Oct 10, 2012
This ultraviolet image, captured by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Ahead spacecraft on February 12, 2010, shows solar storms brewing in two active areas of the Sun.
Published Mar 20, 2010
Auroras show out atmosphere’s connection to the heliosphere—the solar system-wide atmosphere of the Sun.
Published Oct 2, 2017
Earth is a great magnet, and scientists have spent a century exploring its shape and structure. This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or magnetosphere.
Published Apr 23, 2011
Researchers probed the auroral wind by shooting instruments into them in February 2013.
Published Feb 9, 2013
