10 h. ago Met Office divulges exact date Northern Lights set to illuminate UK skies this week

The month of March is set to be a spectacular time to look up, with a "Blood Moon", a partial solar eclipse, and now, a potential Northern Lights display illuminating the sky

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27 h. ago Exact date Northern Lights could illuminate UK skies this week

A solar storm could bring a stunning aurora borealis display to the UK

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49 h. ago Exact date you can see the Northern Lights in the UK skies and what to expect

The Northern Lights are set to return to the UK soon

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5 d. ago How big an asteroid needs to be to kill us all – spoiler alert, not very

Asteroids DO regularly hit Earth's atmosphere – think back to the Chelyabinsk Event in Russia that blazed over the southern Urals, lighting up the sky before exploding in the air

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6 d. ago How to see the Northern Lights in the UK TONIGHT: Aurora Borealis to light up the night sky as a huge solar storm strikes Earth

The dazzling light show is due to a geomagnetic storm - a disturbance in Earth's magnetic field caused by a violent ejection of charged particles from the sun.

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8 d. ago Dark Sky Scotland 2025: Here are 10 great places to stargaze

You’ll be amazed at what you see when you look up on a dark night in these Scottish locations.

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1 week ago Huge fire lights up the sky in Manchester as lorries go up in blaze, forcing families to evacuate

The blaze that broke out just after 8am at the Roundthorn Industrial Estate in the Wythenshawe area of the city 'involved heavy good vehicles', the fire brigade said.

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2 w. ago City’s zombified figures are haunted by ghosts of themselves in Bernabéu exit | Barney Ronay

There is some certainty now that Guardiola’s greatest City side is formally over after a weak Champions League defeatRage, rage against the dying of the sky blue light. Or, alternately, don’t rage at all. The scoreline read 3-1 by the end, but for long periods on a lovely soft February night at the Bernabéu this felt like an act of extended sporting cruelty, an opportunity to sit back and watch the players of Real Madrid pulling the wings very slowly from an aubergine-shirted butterfly.The key executioner was Kylian Mbappé, who barely seemed to sprint, or wrinkle his shirt, let alone dig into the outer reaches of his talent en route to a clean, crisp, almost uncontested hat-trick. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Sky 'lit up' over area of Greater Manchester as mysterious fireball passes overhead

Construction site manager James Garside had just got back from a late shift when he saw the strange light in the night sky

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