Northern lights dazzle across Scotland, Ireland and south through England

People share sightings of the aurora borealis, with reports from as far south as Cornwall, and the spectacle is expected to repeat on Monday night

Shimmering greens, purples and pinks of the northern lights appeared in the night sky across Britain and Ireland on Sunday night in a display that reached as far south as Hertfordshire and Cornwall.

The light spectacle, also known as an aurora, is usually most visible near the Earth’s magnetic north and south poles when high-speed electrically charged particles from space collide with gas molecules in Earth’s upper atmosphere.