So he and his new fiancee did finally get to see them probably one of the only times passengers were glad for flight delay. chris scott professor in space & atmospheric physics at reading university and joins us now. why have they been seen so far south as kent, cornwall in southern england and ireland? the sun is an active started to dazzle eruptions on its surface and we have two recently and these are known and they are a billion of tonnes of material travelling and if they come towards our planet, they bring the magnetic field to it and that allows energetic particles to fall into our atmo...