Time lapse: Northern lights dance in the sky over Germany (video)

Rare natural spectacle
In time lapse: the northern lights dance so beautifully in the sky over Germany

Rare natural spectacle: Northern lights dance in the sky over Germany

Time-lapse video shows northern lights around the Pilsum lighthouse in Lower Saxony. Video source: n-tv.de


These breathtaking time-lapse images of the Aurora Borealis are taken around the Pilsum lighthouse in Lower Saxony. Just watch and enjoy.

During the night, colorful northern lights shone over large parts of Germany. The natural phenomenon lit up the sky over Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Bavaria. It also appeared elsewhere: red to green hazes of light were also observed over the Mediterranean over the USA, Great Britain and even southern France.

Northern lights are a result of the current bubbling on the sun: its activity fluctuates in an approximately eleven-year cycle. The current cycle is currently at its maximum – it lasts a few years, during which there are always relatively many solar flares. The colorful sky lights arise when coronal mass ejections (CME), i.e. huge clouds of solar plasma, hit the Earth’s magnetic field.

The mass ejections can create geomagnetic storms. The US weather agency NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) reported on Friday night that the current storms had reached category G4. The northern lights visible in large parts of Germany in May were triggered by a G5 storm, the highest category.

A week ago, Sami Solanki, director at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, told the German Press Agency that northern lights could be seen over Germany. However, it is difficult to predict the strength and speed of the mass ejections heading towards Earth. More precise information is only clear about half an hour before the plasma particles arrive on Earth, when satellites around a million kilometers away can measure them.

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