Northern Lights seen across the UK as stunning photos show the aurora lighting up the night sky

THE Northern Lights person lit up skies crossed the UK with colourful hues dazzling onlookers.

Breathtaking photos of the stunning earthy phenomenon, besides known arsenic aurora borealis, were captured crossed the state by Brits.

The Met Office said that the viewings were apt successful Scotland and Northern Ireland and imaginable successful the northbound of England and the Midlands.

However, acknowledgment successful portion to comparatively wide skies, they were disposable for immense numbers of Brits good beyond this.

The beauteous lights could beryllium seen arsenic acold southbound arsenic London.

The lights besides spotted further northbound successful Lancaster by Professor Jim Wild, 49, who captured the Northern Lights from his backmost garden.

The academic, who researches the aurora and abstraction weather astatine Lancaster University, said: "My probe focuses connected the physics of the connections betwixt the Sun and the Earth.

"Over the years, I've been to the Arctic Circle respective times to marque measurements of the aurora, but it's truly peculiar to spot the bluish lights from your backmost plot with your full family."

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

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 Met Office said comparatively wide skies were forecast for overmuch of the UK, creating a "decent accidental of visibility".

A spokesperson for the forecaster said determination had been "more abstraction upwind events successful caller months", including the Northern Lights, due to the fact that the prima was nearing the highest of its star cycle.

Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said determination was a accidental of immoderate disposable auroras crossed parts of the UK connected Thursday nighttime and into the aboriginal hours of Friday.

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

The prima works connected a rhythm of astir 11 years called the star rhythm - with highest sunspot enactment connected the aboveground of the Sun referred to arsenic star maximum.

Sunspots springiness the imaginable for Earth-directed releases of ample bursts of energy, called coronal wide ejections, which tin pb to aurora visibility.

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.

There person been respective mesmerising displays disposable from some sides of the Atlantic already this year.

But flares and star eruptions tin interaction radio communications, electrical power grids, navigation signals, and airs risks to spacecraft and astronauts.