Northern Lights illuminate skies across the UK
On Sunday the Met Office said the best chances to see the lights were in Scotland.
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The northern lights have illuminated the skies on Sunday night with the Met Office confirming sightings spread across the UK.
On Sunday the Met said the best chances to see the northern lights, also known as aurora borealis, were in Scotland, but “it could be possible as far south as central Wales and England”.
“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.
“These shapes change quickly over timescales of minutes/seconds.”
