Aurora Borealis captured in skies over Shropshire
It's only the faintest green glow but this is the Aurora Borealis captured in the skies over Shopshire last night.
The photo was taken in Shrewsbury by Tom Lowe who posted on Twitter:
It came as people in the north of England and Scotland shared their photos of the Northern Lights over Britain.
The lights are seen around the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. Auroras that occur in the northern hemisphere are called 'Aurora Borealis' or 'northern lights' and auroras that occur in the southern hempishere are called 'Aurora Australis' or 'southern lights'.
Auroras are produced when the magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by the solar wind that the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and magnetospheric plasma precipitate them into the upper atmosphere.
