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In Pictures: Another spectacular display as Northern Lights burn brightly

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The Northern Lights have lit up skies across the UK and Ireland – with areas as far south as Kent being treated to bright pink and green hues.

Clear and crisp conditions, matched with the sun nearing the peak of its solar cycle, have led to astonishing displays in the night sky.

Northern Lights as seen on the causeway leading to Holy Island in Northumberland
Aurora displays occur when charged particles collide with gases in the Earth’s atmosphere around the magnetic poles (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Northern Lights above Northumberland
Here, a refuge hut on the causeway to Holy Island in Northumberland gives a sense of the display’s majestic scale (Owen Humphreys/PA)

The Northern Lights over Dublin
The Northern Lights were also visible in Ireland, with this scene captured in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA)

Northern Lights above Felixstowe, Suffolk
These images from Felixstowe, Suffolk, illustrate the peak of the solar activity which produced the aurora (Ella Pickover/PA)

Northern Lights over the North of England
The sun works on a cycle of around 11 years called the solar cycle – with peak sunspot activity on the surface of the sun referred to as solar maximum (Owen Humphreys/PA)

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