The Northern Lights lit up the skies across the country, with striking red and green skies visible across Scotland.
The Northern Lights, also known as the Northern Lights, appear in the night sky as bright, swirling curtains of light that range in color from green to pink to scarlet.
The phenomenon was widely visible across Scotland on Monday, from the Orkney Islands in the north to the border.
It is caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with gases in the Earth’s atmosphere.
The two most common gases in Earth’s atmosphere are nitrogen and oxygen. Oxygen atoms glow green, the color most commonly seen in the aurora borealis, while nitrogen atoms emit purple, blue, and pink.
The most impressive auroras occur when the sun emits clouds of very large particles called “coronal mass ejections.”
The Northern Lights were photographed over Dunwoody Main in Dumfries and Galloway. [BBC WeatherWatchers/Leonard]
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