Watch: Southern Lights timelapse filmed from space

A spectacular Southern Lights show has been captured connected camera from space.

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir filmed the timelapse from onboard the SpaceX Dragon shuttle.

The Southern Lights are conscionable arsenic communal arsenic the Northern Lights, and are commonly seen crossed Antarctica, but comparatively fewer radical unrecorded successful latitudes adjacent to the South Pole, truthful they are not arsenic well-known arsenic their bluish counterpart.

These lights hap adjacent the poles due to the fact that Earth's magnetic tract channels charged particles from the Sun toward those regions, wherever they collide with the ambiance and make shimmering waves of colour.