Space and Stuff : It's Big
- Thread starter summerisle
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Just took this outside my house
We once spent a couple of hours snowmobiling around Lapland in -30C looking for this stuff, and then we get this in the back garden.
Sunny Northants
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Vintage
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Was sitting in my car half an hour ago when I saw a pink rainbow across the night sky. Got out and saw beams of pinks, reds, blues and greens. Only when I looked up the net after I saw that northern lights might be visible tonight. Something I always wanted to see but never thought I would. Absolutely amazing. Phone is crap so didn't get any worthwhile pics. This was the best of the lot 
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County Clare, Republic of Ireland, never seen them this far south.
Come on, someone, the emerald skied isle.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Reminds me of The Day of the Triffids, good job I could see feck all. lol
Like you could stick a skin-full of Guinness away after all that cake.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I must admit, I didn't go outside. lolLike you could stick a skin-full of Guinness away after all that cake.
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You usually have to way more north to see the aurora borealis. It's a once in a lifetime type of event lads!
Northern Lights visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm hits
The Sun has experienced a spike in activity in recent days that has seen six or seven eruptions on the surface of the star spit out solar material towards Earth.
news.sky.com
'At any given moment, the sun is ejecting charged particles from its corona, or upper atmosphere, creating the solar wind. When that wind slams into Earth's ionosphere, or upper atmosphere, the aurora is born. In the Northern Hemisphere, the phenomenon is called the northern lights (aurora borealis).
These particles are deflected towards the poles of Earth by our planet's magnetic field and interact with our atmosphere, depositing energy and causing the atmosphere to fluoresce.
The bright colors of the northern lights are dictated by the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere.'
On second thought, that sounds a bit scary... Watch your heads while you're out there boys!
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