The Northern Lights were visible above parts of the North West on Sunday night.
Also known as the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights were spotted by keen stargazers in Ormskirk and Skelmersdale between 11pm and midnight yesterday. According to the Met Office, the lights appear due to "collisions of charged particles in the solar wind colliding with molecules in the Earth's upper atmosphere".
It continues: "Depending on which gas molecules are hit and where they are in the atmosphere, different amounts of energy are released as different wavelengths of light.
