New Zealand’s night sky lit up with streams of pink and green, treating viewers to a spectacle of the Aurora Australis.
The lights, visible to the naked eye, were seen across the southern island, all the way up north to Wellington and Hawke’s Bay.
Kiwis rushed to social media to share the sights, which was caused by a significant G4 level geomagnetic storm.
“The Aurora Australis danced over the Tasman last night towards the upper North Island as the magnetosphere continued to be bombarded by the incoming solar wind,” Hauraki Gulf Weather wrote on Twitter.
The Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, glow on the horizon over waters of Lake Ellesmere on the outskirts of Christchurch on April 24, 2023. (Sanka Vidanagama/AFP via Getty Images)
One photographer, Natalie Crowther, has been chasing for a shot of the phenomenon for 10 years. Last night, she was finally able to photograph the lights over Lake Ellesmere….