NATURAL WONDERS......Northern Lights illuminate the UK
Renaissance - Northern Lights
28 February 2014 Last updated at 15:13
Northern Lights illuminate the UKThe Aurora Borealis - better known as the
Northern Lights - has been giving rare and spectacular displays over parts of the
UK, from the north of Scotland to as far south as Jersey.
The lights have also been visible in places such as Essex, Gloucestershire, Norfolk
and south Wales.
Stonehaven war memorial, Aberdeenshire
The display, which is caused by electrically charged particles from the Sun entering
the Earth's atmosphere, led to scenes such as this one at the Stonehaven war
memorial, Aberdeenshire.
Wick, in Caithness
Mark Thompson, presenter of the BBC's Stargazing Live, said he had not been
expecting a display as spectacular as it was in places such as Wick, in Caithness.
The Aurora Borealis seen in pink and orange over a British landscape
Mr Thompson said the display, which was also seen in Corbridge, Northumberland,
happens when solar wind - electrically charged particles - is ejected from the Sun.
He said: "They take two or three days to get here and when they do get here they
cause the gas atoms in the sky to glow. It is as simple as that."
The Northern Lights over Boulmer, Northumberland
The astronomer said: "Three or four days ago the Sun will have thrown a lot of this
stuff out in an event called a coronal mass ejection, and they would have been
travelling towards the Earth since. It all depends how active the Sun has been."
This photograph was taken in Boulmer, Northumberland.
Northern Lights in Gloucestershire
Mr Thompson said the particles were usually pulled towards the North Pole but if
there were enough of them "they will travel further down towards the equator and
cause the lights to go further south" as shown in this picture, taken in
Gloucestershire.
Dunluce
The Northern Lights were also seen in Northern Ireland. Martina Gardiner was at
Dunluce Castle in County Antrim and captured this colourful image.
The Northern Lights seen at Bow Fiddle Rock in Portknockie, Moray.
Lucie Green, of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, said: "At the moment we are
at the height of the Sun's activity cycle, and it's ultimately energy from the Sun
that creates the Northern Lights." The lights were seen from many parts of the UK,
including here at Bow Fiddle Rock in Portknockie, Moray.
The Northern Light at Embleton Bay in Northumberland.
Ms Green said: "When we were watching the Sun on 25 February we saw that a
particularly large and fast eruption leapt off from the Sun's atmosphere, and the
models predicted that we would probably get a glancing blow from this eruption,
and they were right." This picture was taken at Embleton Bay in Northumberland.
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Beautiful photos! Shame it wasn't as far as Somerset...would have been amazing to get a picture of the northern lights around Glastonbury Tor!
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