{"id":4817,"date":"2024-10-03T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/northern-lights-could-appear-over-parts-of-the-uk-this-week\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:00:34","slug":"northern-lights-could-appear-over-parts-of-the-uk-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/northern-lights-could-appear-over-parts-of-the-uk-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights could appear over parts of the UK this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Lights may make an appearance over the UK over the next couple of nights, after a series of solar flares erupted from the sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, are caused by solar storms interacting with the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>When solar storms react with atmospheric gases above our north and south magnetic poles, the result is beautiful displays of light in the sky, like the UK saw in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the next couple of days, there\u2019s a chance that we could be seeing the Northern Lights, particularly across northern parts of Scotland in the north of England and Northern Ireland,\u201d Krista Hammond, a space weather expert at the Met Office, told Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because there\u2019s the potential to see the arrival of a geomagnetic storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Earlier in the week, astronomers spotted two solar flares, which release plasma into space, coming from the sun \u2013 a process called a coronal mass ejection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of that will miss the Earth,\u201d said Ms Hammond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there\u2019s a chance in the coming nights that we will clip the edge of these two mass ejections, which means you\u2019ve got the potential for the storm which causes the Northern Lights,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The UK has seen the Northern Lights more than usual in recent months because the sun is in a particularly active part of its cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The cycle lasts around eleven years as its magnetic fields flip, according to Ms Hammond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: Stargazers share stunning images of aurora borealis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is currently at the \u201csolar maximum\u201d, meaning there are many more solar flares and solar storms \u2013 and the Northern Lights are appearing much further south than usual.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to tell when the solar maximum is ending, so make the most of opportunities to spot the Northern Lights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t really tell that you\u2019ve peaked until you\u2019re in the descending phase,\u201d said Ms Hammond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s estimated that solar maximum is about now to the start of next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Lights may make an appearance over the UK over the next couple of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}