Northern lights in Poland on Thursday and Friday. Spectacular view

On Thursday, a very strong one appeared over the Earth storm geomagnetic, the effects of which were clearly visible after sunset. In northern Poland there are perfect conditions to admire northern lights. Karol Wójcicki, popularizer of astronomy from the website “With Head in the Stars”, called them outstanding. As he wrote on social media, it was “one of the strongest northern lights of the season”.

Unfortunately, the weather conditions for admiring the aurora were different in many regions of the country. In places, the sky was covered with dark, rainy clouds, making it impossible to observe the phenomenon.

On Kontakt 24 we received photos of the Northern Lights. Reporters 24 from northern Poland managed to capture breathtaking shots of the phenomena.

An unusual phenomenon was also observed in Trzebieszewo near Kamień Pomorski (West Pomeranian Voivodeship). Aleksandra Mielniczuk managed to capture the northern lights.

The aurora borealis is formed in the upper layers of the Earth’s atmosphere and is a phenomenon characteristic mainly of the polar regions. It can take many different forms: colorful arcs, streaks, bands. Auroras are also generally green, blue-green with patches of pink or red, there are also blue-white, yellow-green or purple colors.

Their formation is associated with the flow of current in the ionosphere, at an altitude of about 100 kilometers above the Earth. During solar flares, the Sun emits protons and electrons. These particles are mostly deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field. They are caught by the Earth’s magnetosphere and move along the helix path along the magnetic field lines connecting the two Earth’s magnetic poles. As a consequence, there is an excitation of atoms in the polar region, which results in the appearance of luminous glows in the sky.