„Огромна“ соларна бура ја погоди планетата и создаде неверојатна аурора

Последните два дена голема геомагнетна бура ја погоди нашата планета, предизвикувајќи прекрасни пејсажи на аурора, која беше забележана од најдалечните делови на светот.

Големата активност придонесе аурорите да се придвижат многу подолу на географските широчини.

Аматерски и професионални надгледувачи на ѕвезди се воодушевуваа на Аурора Бореалис и Аурора Аустралис над северната и јужната хемисфера, влкучувајќи ја Велика Британија, Германија и дел од Австралија и Нов Зеланд.

Еден експерт во Австралија го опиша настанот Аурора Аустралис како „најдобриот кој бил виден со години“.

Ова е мал дел фотографии од најразлични делови на планетата каде обично многу поретко се појавуваат аурори.

Star gazers were wowed last night as the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis danced across the northern and southern hemispheres. The event was spotted in the UK (Keswick in the Lake District is shown), as far south as Germany and across Australia and New Zealand

Jaw-dropping: There were spectacular scenes in the skies above Ullswater in Cumbria which were awash with the Aurora Borealis

Stunning: This was the scene in Sutherland, Scotland as the dancing northern lights lit up the night sky

The sky glows in pinks and oranges as the aurora borealis beams out over Usk Reservoir in the Brecon Beacons, Wales

Heavenly: The skies above St Bridget's Church near Whitehaven, Cumbria, glowed in blues and greens

The Aurora is pictured at Garry Beach, Tolsta on Isle of Lewis. A severe solar storm reached the Earth on Tuesday

Aurora Borealis means ‘dawn of the north’ and Aurora Australis translates as ‘dawn of the south.’ The displays are caused when electrically charged particles from the sun enter the Earth’s atmosphere. This shot was taken above Lake Ruataniwha in Twizel, New Zealand

In Wales (pictured), landscape photographer Anthony Pease, from Llandovery, Dyfed took his son Harri to see the displays. 'Harri is only four days old. He's already seen his first Aurora and he's got a solar eclipse coming up on Friday - not bad for his first week!' said Mr Pease

Mr Pease spent the day working on commission on Pen-y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons (pictured). 'It was an incredibly clear night and the aurora was particularly strong, suggesting they were probably taking place over Scotland. Opportunities like that don't come along very often,' he said

The common, greenish-yellow colour is caused by colliding oxygen molecules approximately 60 miles (96km) above Earth. This image shows a stunning range of colours over Derwent water in the Lake District

Rare, red auroras (pictured over Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland) are produced by oxygen molecules situated much higher up, at around 200 miles (321km). Photographer Tam Mullen took this shot of him paddleboarding 

This blasts of magnetic plasma arrived about 15 hours earlier, and much stronger, than expected, said Thomas Berger, director of the Space Weather Prediction Centre. The storm was expected to rank as a 1 on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's scale for geomagnetic effects but when it hit, readings suggested it was actually a 4 - or a 'severe' storm. Narva-Joesuu in Estonia is pictured

Residents of Allonby  are shown enjoying the dramatic explosion of colour in the skies above the Cumbrian location

It was the strongest solar storm to hit Earth since 2013 and it's been nearly a decade since a level 5 'extreme' storm has hit Earth. Forecasters also figured it would come early this morning but it was so powerful it arrived sooner than predicted. Twizel, New Zealand is pictured

Such storms have the potential to disrupt power grids but only temporarily, and no damage has been reported. It could also cause degradation of the global positioning system, so tracking maps and locators may not be as precise as normal. This particular storm was so strong, however, it caused displays to be spotted as far south as Lietzen in Maerkisch-Oderland, Germany (pictured)

Countries such as Finland and Norway typically see the display because they are closer to the magnetic north pole. But people across Europe were treated to the spectacle. This image was taken in northeastern Estonia

People in Alaska (Donnelly Creek pictured at 1.30AM yesterday morning) and Canada watched the display. One Canadian Twitter user said: 'I've probably jumped a dozen times out of shear excitement'

The first auroras were spotted in the northern tier of the US, including Washington state, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Space Weather branch chief Brent Gordon said if the storm effects continued there is a 'very strong possibility' that the northern lights could be seen as far south as the middle United States, even Tennessee and Oklahoma

Experts said geomagnetic storms are more disruptive now than in the past because of our greater dependence on technical systems that can be affected by electric currents. This shot was taken in Norway

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