Bioluminescence is making Tasmania look like a different planet

 By 
Ariel Bogle
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Parts of the shoreline around the city of Hobart, Australia have been glowing an otherworldly fluorescent blue at night.

Photographers and scientists have flocked to southern Tasmania to enjoy the phenomena, caused by blooms of single-cell organisms called dinoflagellates -- nicknamed Sea Sparkles -- which light up when disturbed, according to ABC News.

"I've seen a lot of bioluminescence in the past 25 years and this is the best I've ever seen," Jellyfish expert Lisa-Ann Gershwin told told 936 ABC Hobart. "It was the most wondrous sight imaginable."

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