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A strong solar storm could mean the Northern Lights will be seen from the UK early this week, according to experts at the Met Office HQ in Exeter. Pictured is the natural light display in Grotfjord, Norway.

New photos from the public show the natural light display in green and pink hues over Loch Lomond near Glasgow in Scotland and in rural Canada and North Dakota.

Astronomers have spotted as many as 17 eruptions from a single spot on Sun; and two of the flares hit Earth at nearly 2 million miles an hour.

The spectacular natural phenomenon is the result of a giant cannibal solar eruption that is barrelling towards Earth at 1.8 million miles/hour.

Strong geomagnetic storm watch in effect

The Met Offices Space Weather arm said solar activity had been at high levels over the past 24 hours, with 17 solar eruptions blasting from a single sunspot and two heading for Earth.

The forecasted solar storm means the Northern Lights are expected to be visible to the naked eye in northern parts of the UK this week.

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and flares are the largest eruptive phenomena in our solar system that are characterised by powerful outbursts of plasma and energy.

A team of astronomers have found that interactions between two different Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) in the interplanetary medium as they travel towards the Earth play a key role in their evolution. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and flares are the

The INCAA mission will study how the aurora borealis stir up the boundary layer between the neutral atmosphere that cocoons our planet and the electrically-reactive plasma of space.