The Met Office is predicting 'enhanced' Northern Lights displays over the next few days.
The Northern Lights will set Scotland's skies aglow this week after stunning displays were spotted last night.
It comes after skygazers in Scotland were treated to breathtaking green, pink and purple aurora borealis on Monday night thanks to increased solar activity and clear skies.View gallery The Met Office said the display this week is due to a coronal mass ejection - a huge expulsion of plasma from the sun's outer layer. Defined as a type of 'solar storm', this particular CME left the sun on Saturday, September 16 and hit the Earth's system of magnetic fields, causing the aurora.
"The coming three-day period is likely to see some enhanced auroral displays at high geomagnetic latitudes, with aurora perhaps visible overhead for northern Scotland to start Tuesday following recent CME arrival," forecasters said. The display should be visible across Scotland and even as far south as northern England, however, cloud could possible obstruct clear views of it
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