The aurora borealis may illuminate night skies across the UK on Saturday evening
The aurora borealis could illuminate night skies across the UK on Saturday evening into Sunday morning. According to The Met Office, the lights could be as "strong" as those that were spotted last week in the Shetlands and in central and Eastern parts of England.
Simon Partridge, a senior meteorologist at the Met Office, told the PA news agency: “The Northern Lights will be visible tonight – until Sunday morning. On November 5, the aurora borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, was visible in Northamptonshire and Northumberland and some onlookers even spotted a strong thermal emission velocity enhancement which is a phenomenon that often appears as a purple or green streak in the sky.
“It’s actually a bit like iron filings and the field of a bar magnetic. The solar wind contains more particles when there are sun spots, as these are regions on the sun’s surface where the magnetic field is interacting with the plasma in the sun, and the particles can be released.
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