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The southern lights mirror the northern ones

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The northern hemisphere usually steals all the glory, but the bottom of the world has an identical neon light show. The aurora australis puts on the exact same spectacular, radiation-fueled display, but it plays out over a desolate continent where almost no one is around to actually appreciate it.

The southern lights mirror the northern ones
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