There’s a good chance the Northern Lights will make another appearance tonight after they could be seen across the country on Tuesday evening.

The aurora borealis is usually only visible in the auroral oval – a ring of light that encircles Iceland, Canada, Alaska and the polar caps.

But the phenomenon can be seen above British skies when certain space weather happens, such as gigantic solar eruptions slapping Earth.

One of these bursts, called a coronal mass ejection, hit the planet yesterday, giving Britons a higher than usual chance of seeing the lights.

AuroraWatch UK has so far issued five red alerts for the Northern Lights today, meaning it is ‘likely that aurora will be visible by eye and camera from anywhere in the UK’.

An amber alert, issued at around 9pm, says that the ribbon

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