On the evening of May 10 and into the early hours of May 11 something special happened: the most active solar storm in two decades. It meant that the northern lights – a phenomenon I’ve only ever dreamt of seeing, having never made a trip to the far north where you can more reliably catch a glimpse – would be visible right on my doorstep, way down in the south of the UK.The spectacle was the water-cooler chat across
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