Northern Lights light up skies across the UK for the second night in a row - ... trends now
Skygazers had yet another chance to tick off one of the greatest natural sights from their bucket list last night – the Northern Lights.
For the second night running, the spectacular light display was visible in the UK after dusk.
Viewers have been posting their photos to X (formerly Twitter), including one based in Moffat in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, who called the display 'stunning'.
Another viewer on west coast of Lewis in the Scottish Highlands posted: 'It happened again!' with the aurora shining purple and green.
If you missed the stunning display, there's good news as the Met Office says there's a chance the Northern Lights will be visible again tonight.
This photo was posted to X by user @moffat_wigwams showing the aurora as seen from Moffat in Dumfriesshire, Scotland
An aurora is created by disturbances in Earth's magnetosphere due to a flow of particles from the sun and is usually centred around the Earth's magnetic poles.
The charged particles are expelled from the sun at top speeds before interacting with Earth's magnetic field.
The colour display depends in part on what molecules the charged particles interact with.
Red and green colours tend to be hallmarks of oxygen, pink and red the signs of nitrogen with blue and purple being the results of hydrogen and helium.
According to the Met Office, this week's aurora stems from a coronal mass ejection (CME) – a massive expulsion of plasma from the sun's corona, its outermost layer.
It's possible the display could be visible yet again tonight due to the violent expulsion event although the further north you are the better.
A Met Office animation shows the auroral oval around the northern hemisphere, which marks where exactly the best chance of seeing the light display is until Friday.
'A coronal mass ejection (CME) has a chance to affect Earth on Thursday 7th March,' the Met Office says in a new statement.
'There is a chance that aurora could become visible from Scotland and similar geomagnetic latitudes.
'Similar enhancements to the auroral oval are slightly more likely to occur on Friday night.'
Pictured, the auroral oval around the northern hemisphere, which marks where exactly the best chance of seeing the light display is
Twitter user @KmunityOfEquals shared this photo of the aurora from Cornwall on Sunday night
