This month, skygazers across huge parts of the UK have been lucky enough to spot the Northern Lights, with displays visible much further south than usual.
If you’ve not managed to catch the lights so far, there’s good news – tonight could be your chance.
This evening, a brilliant aurora will flare up again over Scotland and Northern Ireland – with a chance of sightings over parts of Northern England and Wales.
While tonight’s Northern Lights will be weaker than
Calamity after calamity befell Europe at the beginning of the so-called Dark Ages. The Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Volcanic eruptions in the mid-sixth century blocked out the sun, causing crop failure and famine across the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile, the Justinian Plague arrived, killing, by some estimates, nearly half of everybody in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and scores of others elsewhere.
And then, on June 8, 793, a group of marauders attacked a small
