Forget About Bingo – Look Out the Window!

If you bingo fans dwelling in Scotland and the very top of Northern England had peeled your eyes away from your fave online bingo site on Monday 23rd January and cast your eyes over the night sky, you would have seen something very different than the usual electric orange glow or dull clouds, as a magical yet eerie phenomenon filled the usually dreary skies!

The Northern Lights – also known as Aurora Borealis – are a result energetically charged particles colliding with atoms in high altitude atmospheres.Apparently, it is impossible to predict this event so this beautiful occurrence creeps right up on us; however it is very common when the sun is at its “solar maximum” which happens every 11 years.The reason we are seeing this now is because the sun will reach this stage in 2013 – this is merely a glorious preview of things to come!When the sun reaches “solar maximum”, it erupts a kind of plasma that is magnetically drawn to the South and North Poles and when this plasma hits the earth’s atmosphere, it releases light and energy. The result of this is the gorgeous, other-worldly Northern Lights, which are most commonly green but can sometimes be pink.

Online bingo fans in the likes of Aberdeen, Clackmannanshire, the Shetlands and North Berwick will have had the most amazing view of the Northern Lights, but some sightings were reported as far south as Yorkshire.This is an amazing and breath-taking site that is usually reserved for places like Alaska and Canada that are particularly close to the North Pole and usually only treats us Brits to such delights every 11 years when the sun does hit it’s “solar maximum”, so such a jaw-dropping site is well worth leaping off your bingo chair and heading outside!

Don’t worry if you are too far North to Feast your eyes on the Northern Lights – there are still plenty of night-sky phenomenon’s to feast your eyes upon!Things like Moon Rings in which we see a strange yet beautiful ring around the moon occurs when sunlight is being reflected off of the moon and back to earth and can be seen by anyone, anywhere on earth as long as the sun has set, of course!Likewise, the Milky Way can often be seen scattered across the skies of the British Isles if it’s clear and dark enough, and let’s not forget the occasional, gorgeous meteorites that can be seen in the sky or even the solar eclipses!

Online bingo is a fun and addictive pastime.With such a mega amount of bingo bonuses, promotions and incredible bingo jackpots, it’s easy to get sucked into your computer and forget about the world outside, especially as night falls and you relax after a hard day’s work.But every now and again, we have to remember to look outside our own front doors, because there is so much to be seen!

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