AURORA AUSTRALIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aurora australis mean? 

• AURORA AUSTRALIS (noun)
  The noun AURORA AUSTRALIS has 1 sense:

1. the aurora of the southern hemisphere

  Familiarity information: AURORA AUSTRALIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AURORA AUSTRALIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The aurora of the southern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

aurora australis; southern lights

Hypernyms ("aurora australis" is a kind of...):

aurora (an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force)

 Context examples 

Auroras at Earth's poles (known as the aurora borealis at the North Pole and aurora australis at the South Pole) occur when the energetic particles blown out from the Sun (the solar wind) interact with and heat up the gases in the upper atmosphere.

(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)