The skies turned pink across New Zealand over the weekend, as a geomagnetic storm caused the Aurora Australis to flare brightly.
The rare and striking visual phenomenon was caused by flares and coronal ejections from the Sun’s surface, which threw material into the Earth’s atmosphere.
Clear skies in the Coromandel and across the Hauraki Plains meant that people across the district were able to see the resulting aurora with the naked eye. Social media quickly filled up with images of the event.
