Northern Lights illuminate skies throughout the UK

The shiny Northern Lights illuminated the sky throughout sure components of the UK final night time.

The lights glazed the sky on Sunday 23 April and had been seen throughout Wales and England.

Lancaster University’s AuroraWatch, run by the Space and Planetary Physics group, issued a ‘purple alert’, that means that seeing aurora was very “likely”.

Here’s what it appeared like over St Mary’s lighthouse in Whitley Bay on the northeast coast of England.

The phenomenon brought about the sky to show totally different shades of inexperienced and purple. The show might also be seen in tonight’s sky if situations are clear.

What causes the aurora or ‘northern lights’?

According to Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the aurora is brought on by exercise on the solar’s floor.

Solar storms on a star’s floor give out big clouds of particles charged with electrical energy, which may enter the Earth’s ambiance in a short time.

“These particles then slam into atoms and molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere and essentially heat them up,” Royal Observatory astronomer Tom Kerss stated.

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“We call this physical process ‘excitation’, but it’s very much like heating a gas and making it glow.”

And so, what we’re seeing are atoms and molecules in our ambiance colliding with particles from the solar.