People across the U.K. were treated to a spectacular light show as the Northern Lights danced across the night sky in vivid colors.
February 27, 2023, 8:44 PMJames Billings Photography/via ReutersOn Sunday night into early Monday morning, the Northern lights phenomenon, usually seen in regions closer to the Arctic like Iceland and Scandinavia, made an appearance further south, delighting those in the U.K. with a multi-colored display against the dark night sky. Auroras occur when atoms and molecules in Earth's atmosphere clash with a solar flare from the sun.
An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky, Feb. 26, 2023, near Washtucna, Wash.Aurora sightings across some regions in the continent occurred after a coronal hole high speed stream -- regions of open magnetic fields on the sun that appear dark next to denser plasma surrounding it -- combined with a "rather fast" coronal mass ejection, a powerful burst of magnetized plasma from the sun’s corona, its outermost layer, the U.K.
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