PHOTOS: Colorful Aurora Dances Across Night Skies

By Jillian MacMath, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer

March 18,2015; 9:52PM,EDT

 

 

The nighttime sky across the Northern Hemisphere was flooded with bright colors on Tuesday, as a brilliant display of the aurora borealis dipped farther south than usual.
The appearance of the northern lights follows several episodes of solar activity, including what is thought to be one of the strongest solar storms since 2013, according to the Associated Press.
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The aurora captured from the International Space Station. (Photo/NASA)
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Across parts of Australia and New Zealand, sightings of the Aurora Australis were also reported Tuesday night. The footage below was shot in Christchurch, New Zealand: