Usually, you have to travel to Scandinavia or at least the northern reaches of Scotland to catch a glimpse of the northern lights, but on Friday night they were visible even in London and Essex thanks to the most powerful solar storm in two decades.
Sightings were also reported in Ireland, Europe, the US, and in parts of the southern hemisphere.
The normally rare display was visible on Friday night because of a “whopping great sunspot” sending eruptions of charged particles directly towards Earth, according to Mathew Owens, professor of space physics at the University of Reading.
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