Astronomers say sightings of the aurora borealis are more common as the sun nears the peak of its solar cycle
The Northern Lights on display in the skies over Rushmere St Andrew, Ipswich, Suffolk on Thursday. have been spotted in skies across the UK, with stunning pictures taken in Buckinghamshire, Kent, and London on Thursday night.
Stargazers were most likely to catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis at around 9pm in Scotland on Thursday, with other parts of the UK also in with a chance of sighting in the early hours of Friday morning. The Northern lights illuminating the sky in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on Thursday evening. “Even in the Midlands too, if you’ve got a camera with particularly long exposure that can highlight some of the auroras that are happening overhead. The further north you are, the more likely you are to get good visibility.
The Northern Lights occur because of solar activity and the resulting charged particles in the solar wind colliding with molecules in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.Depending on which gas molecules are hit and where they are in the atmosphere, different amounts of energy are released as different wavelengths of light.
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