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Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
These are brilliant.
seriously, a friend of mine has just sent me a message via facebook after i posted this pic on there yesterday,, the girl in this pic is called Karen and she worked with my friend , who is a chef, as a kitchen porter in a hotel in market harborough,,,, ffs , thats mad. Then again, I suppose you couldnt forget a face like that...
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
The Unobstructed View
The aurora borealis are rarely seen in this country but the stunning Northern Lights, which normally appear above Iceland and Norway, were seen further south this weekend due to unusual solar activity.
The skies lit up in gorgeous green arcs across much of Scotland on Sunday night and were reported as far south as Cleveland, Cumbria, Northumberland and Yorkshire.
Scientists say that even Londoners might be able to catch a glimpse of the astonishing phenomenon later this week.
The Royal Observatory reported that the last recording sightings of the phenomenon as far south as the capital was at the start of the Second World War in 1939.
Specialist photographer Reed Ingram Weir, 26, took a series of breathtaking photographs from the A1 near Anick, Northumberland.
Mr Reed, who captured the dancing lights on his Canon 5D at 10.30pm on Sunday night, said the display was "unreal."
He said: "It is very difficult to predict when the lights are going to be visible. We saw the lights in the far distance, whereas in Norway or Iceland they would be above your head.
"People were dancing around under the lights – they were unreal. The lights were visible from about 6pm, but they peaked at around 10.30pm before they died out at midnight."
The sun is in the middle of an active phase of its 11-year solar weather cycle and is therefore becoming more unstable.
A powerful flare erupted from the sun last Thursday, unleashing a plasma wave that supercharged the Northern Lights into high latitudes.
Auroras occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's upper atmosphere, releasing visible light in the process.
The particles are funnelled toward Earth's polar regions by the planet's magnetic field. The glow is caused by high-energy electrons colliding with oxygen atoms and nitrogen molecules.
The potent solar flare unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors said.
The event started late Sunday with a moderate-sized solar flare that erupted right near the centre of the Sun, said Doug Biesecker, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Centre.
A rush of radiation in the form of solar protons has begun bombarding the Earth and is likely to continue through Wednesday.
Robin Scagell, of the Society for Popular Astronomy, said: "It looks like we could be treated to another cosmic light show and so it is well worth watching the northern part of the heavens.
"It is a new moon at present so any aurora will show up better in a dark night sky."
Ken Kennedy, director of the aurora section at the British Astronomical Association, said the it would likely continue for much of the week.
The skies lit up in gorgeous green arcs across much of Scotland on Sunday night and were reported as far south as Cleveland, Cumbria, Northumberland and Yorkshire.
Scientists say that even Londoners might be able to catch a glimpse of the astonishing phenomenon later this week.
The Royal Observatory reported that the last recording sightings of the phenomenon as far south as the capital was at the start of the Second World War in 1939.
Specialist photographer Reed Ingram Weir, 26, took a series of breathtaking photographs from the A1 near Anick, Northumberland.
Mr Reed, who captured the dancing lights on his Canon 5D at 10.30pm on Sunday night, said the display was "unreal."
He said: "It is very difficult to predict when the lights are going to be visible. We saw the lights in the far distance, whereas in Norway or Iceland they would be above your head.
"People were dancing around under the lights – they were unreal. The lights were visible from about 6pm, but they peaked at around 10.30pm before they died out at midnight."
The sun is in the middle of an active phase of its 11-year solar weather cycle and is therefore becoming more unstable.
A powerful flare erupted from the sun last Thursday, unleashing a plasma wave that supercharged the Northern Lights into high latitudes.
Auroras occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's upper atmosphere, releasing visible light in the process.
The particles are funnelled toward Earth's polar regions by the planet's magnetic field. The glow is caused by high-energy electrons colliding with oxygen atoms and nitrogen molecules.
The potent solar flare unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors said.
The event started late Sunday with a moderate-sized solar flare that erupted right near the centre of the Sun, said Doug Biesecker, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Centre.
A rush of radiation in the form of solar protons has begun bombarding the Earth and is likely to continue through Wednesday.
Robin Scagell, of the Society for Popular Astronomy, said: "It looks like we could be treated to another cosmic light show and so it is well worth watching the northern part of the heavens.
"It is a new moon at present so any aurora will show up better in a dark night sky."
Ken Kennedy, director of the aurora section at the British Astronomical Association, said the it would likely continue for much of the week.
TheFinnFan
Finners
The aurora borealis are rarely seen in this country but the stunning Northern Lights, which normally appear above Iceland and Norway, were seen further south this weekend due to unusual solar activity.
The skies lit up in gorgeous green arcs across much of Scotland on Sunday night and were reported as far south as Cleveland, Cumbria, Northumberland and Yorkshire.
Scientists say that even Londoners might be able to catch a glimpse of the astonishing phenomenon later this week.
The Royal Observatory reported that the last recording sightings of the phenomenon as far south as the capital was at the start of the Second World War in 1939.
Specialist photographer Reed Ingram Weir, 26, took a series of breathtaking photographs from the A1 near Anick, Northumberland.
Mr Reed, who captured the dancing lights on his Canon 5D at 10.30pm on Sunday night, said the display was "unreal."
He said: "It is very difficult to predict when the lights are going to be visible. We saw the lights in the far distance, whereas in Norway or Iceland they would be above your head.
"People were dancing around under the lights – they were unreal. The lights were visible from about 6pm, but they peaked at around 10.30pm before they died out at midnight."
The sun is in the middle of an active phase of its 11-year solar weather cycle and is therefore becoming more unstable.
A powerful flare erupted from the sun last Thursday, unleashing a plasma wave that supercharged the Northern Lights into high latitudes.
Auroras occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's upper atmosphere, releasing visible light in the process.
The particles are funnelled toward Earth's polar regions by the planet's magnetic field. The glow is caused by high-energy electrons colliding with oxygen atoms and nitrogen molecules.
The potent solar flare unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors said.
The event started late Sunday with a moderate-sized solar flare that erupted right near the centre of the Sun, said Doug Biesecker, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Centre.
A rush of radiation in the form of solar protons has begun bombarding the Earth and is likely to continue through Wednesday.
Robin Scagell, of the Society for Popular Astronomy, said: "It looks like we could be treated to another cosmic light show and so it is well worth watching the northern part of the heavens.
"It is a new moon at present so any aurora will show up better in a dark night sky."
Ken Kennedy, director of the aurora section at the British Astronomical Association, said the it would likely continue for much of the week.
you forgot to mention finland, put full screen boys
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somuchfun
Player Valuation: £40m
There's a bar in Brighton run by a finn called the Northern Lights. I think I've never seen any other northern lights because I'd have to travel like 1000km up north to see them and I'd rather go 1000km south from here.
EDIT: Oh that'd be somewhere near the border between Belarus and Ukraine. Ffs this country is east.
ijjysmith
Calm
Loads of fit birds in Iceland mate.
EFCNIK
Banned
Really? Hmmm, I'd still rather go to Poland or Hungary or somwhere to get my fix Can't be a lot to do in Iceland.
bluejock
Boss coat aficionado
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Haha. It came up on my Facebook as one of my mates had liked it. Seems that his mate saw this on the bus to work.
Amazing.
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Lulzzz. Is this your work Nik?
