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The Southern Lights Are Even Dancier from Space

Nature imitating CGI.

​ Spotting the Southern Lights from space is even cooler than seeing it from land.

Astronaut Terry Virts, who is  currentl​y stationed on the International Space Station, just upload this video of the Aurora Australis (a.k.a. the Southern Lights) to NASA's Vine account.

"We fly closer to them, and they look very different from the northern lights," he ​tweeted.

The dynamic strips of lights were caught dancing for several hours over the frigid Antarctic. "The phenomenon is caused by charged particles from the solar wind striking atoms and molecules in the atmosphere," explains Universe Today.