Northern Lights seen over UK skies in stunning photos

The Northern Lights person splashed vivid colour crossed UK nighttime skies erstwhile again, with stunning images captured from Scotland to arsenic acold southbound arsenic Kent and East Anglia.

The Met Office earlier said the lights, besides known arsenic aurora borealis, mightiness beryllium seen lone arsenic acold southbound arsenic the Midlands.

People are advised to usage a agelong vulnerability camera to seizure the auroras, arsenic the improvement is not ever disposable with the bare eye.

BBC Weather Watchers, readers and viewers person been sending successful their photos of the show - present are immoderate of the best.

The UK has seen much of the Northern Lights successful 2024 than successful galore caller years.

Aurora displays hap erstwhile charged particles collide with gases successful the Earth's ambiance astir the magnetic poles.

As they collide, airy is emitted astatine assorted wavelengths, creating colourful displays successful the sky.

The auroras are astir commonly seen implicit precocious polar latitudes, and are chiefly influenced by geomagnetic storms which originate from enactment connected the Sun.

Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said accrued UK sightings were helped by the Sun being astatine the highest of an 11-year "solar cycle".

He said it would inactive beryllium imaginable to spot the Northern Lights successful the UK erstwhile the Sun passed the peak, but stargazers should expect a "gradual decline" successful visibility.

The auroras person been peculiarly disposable successful 2024 owed to the biggest geomagnetic tempest since 2003, according to Sean Elvidge, a prof successful abstraction situation astatine the University of Birmingham.

Craig Snell, a upwind forecaster astatine the Met Office, said a star tempest caused a almighty flare from the prima connected Wednesday, which arrived successful our ambiance connected Thursday evening.

He said the spot of the lights would ebb and travel passim the evening, but the lights whitethorn beryllium captured astatine antithetic times passim the night.