Northern lights dazzle across Scotland, Ireland and south through England
by Samantha Lock from World news | The Guardian on (#698M4)
People share sightings of aurora borealis, with reports from as far south as Cornwall, and spectacle expected to repeat on Monday night
Shimmering greens, purples and pinks of the northern lights appeared in the night sky across Britain and Ireland on Sunday night in a display that reached as far south as Hertfordshire and Cornwall.
The light spectacle, also known as an aurora, is usually most visible near the Earth's magnetic north and south poles when high-speed electrically charged particles from space collide with gas molecules in Earth's upper atmosphere.
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