IN PICTURES: Northern Lights over Denmark
Ritzau/The Local - [email protected]
Published: 28 Feb, 2023 CET.
Updated: Tue 28 Feb 2023 09:15 CET
An unusually active solar wind and clear skies meant that the Northern Lights could be seen across swathes of Denmark on Monday night.
Many Danes rushed to the northern coasts of Jutland and Zealand to catch a rare appearance of the phenomenon in Denmark.
The Northern Lights seen from Hornbæk Beach. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
“For us to see the northern lights in Denmark, the solar wind must be more active than usual”, Pagh Nielsen, a physicist who works with weather models at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), said on the agency’s website.
The Northern Lights seen from Hornbæk Beach. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
“That way, there are more electric particles that penetrate the magnetic field and hit the Earth’s atmosphere,” he said.
The Northern Lights seen from Hornbæk Beach. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
The Northern Lights are not usually visible in Denmark more than once or twice per year. They are regularly visible in northern Scandinavia, Iceland and Greenland.
Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
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Many Danes rushed to the northern coasts of Jutland and Zealand to catch a rare appearance of the phenomenon in Denmark.
The Northern Lights seen from Hornbæk Beach. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
“For us to see the northern lights in Denmark, the solar wind must be more active than usual”, Pagh Nielsen, a physicist who works with weather models at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), said on the agency’s website.
The Northern Lights seen from Hornbæk Beach. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
“That way, there are more electric particles that penetrate the magnetic field and hit the Earth’s atmosphere,” he said.
The Northern Lights seen from Hornbæk Beach. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
The Northern Lights are not usually visible in Denmark more than once or twice per year. They are regularly visible in northern Scandinavia, Iceland and Greenland.
Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
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