Aurora Australis

And this is the beast that is causing them:





This sunspot group is roughly 15 times larger than the Earth and has been firing out powerful CME (Cosmic Mass Ejection) in our direction for a few days now resulting in some very spiffy Southern and Northern light displays.

Looks like this big sun spot that triggered all of those Northern & Southern Light displays a couple of weeks back has travelled around the sun and is now about to poke over the horizon and is still very active, so we may get another chance to see some Southern Light displays over the next couple of weeks if it fires off some CME's in our direction.

Is already very active in this recent (cropped) pic from SOHO