This image showing a crown of multicolored lights encircling the planet is often shared on social media as if it was a genuine photo of the aurora borealis phenomenon as seen from space. It isn't.
Harmonic produced this show exclusively for NASA TV UHD, using time-lapses shot from the International Space Station, showing both the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis phenomena
that occur when electrically charged electrons and protons in the Earth's magnetic field collide with neutral atoms in the upper atmosphere.Feimer, Walt. "Earth's Magnetic Field to Aurora."
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