The Perseids meteor shower, dubbed the “best meteor shower of the year” by NASA, peaked on Monday night.
This means that as Earth traveled through the most concentrated part of the debris trail that forms these meteors, skygazers may expect to observe up to 100 meteors each hour.
Generally, you want clear, completely dark sky for the ideal stargazing experience, but the aurora borealis’ appearance made for captivating photos.
Photographer Dafydd Wyn Morgan took this amazing photo, which included the Milky Way in addition to the northern lights and meteor shower.
In the UK, we are witnessing the northern lights more frequently than usual since the sun is in its most active phase of its 11-year cycle.
They created amazing spectacles for viewers across the United Kingdom in May, when the sky turned pink and green.
When electrically charged particles from the sun travel through space and strike Earth’s atmosphere, lights appear in the sky.
The northern lights, or aurora borealis, can be seen over Northumberland’s Bamburgh Lighthouse.
The likelihood of seeing the northern lights increases with proximity to the North Pole, yet they occasionally go farther south.
