On the night of April 23-24, a rare phenomenon similar to the northern lights could be observed in some regions of Ukraine. It lasted several minutes from about 22:00, social media users reported..

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Pink and green light could be seen in the Lviv and Khmelnytsky regions, as well as in the northern regions of the country - in the Kiev region, in the area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bthe Chernobyl exclusion zone. If in the Khmelnitsky region the glow was mostly green, then in the central and northern regions, eyewitnesses recorded a pink glow.

Northern lights in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv region. Recorded at 22:04. Lasted 4 minutes total. Video: boikokyrylo pic. twitter. com/QzlJLsuvBS.

— I love Lviv so much? (@lviv1256) April 23, 2023.

In the sky over Ukraine today, two unusual phenomena could be observed at once: Venus next to the Moon and the Northern Lights. pic. twitter. com/JERWLUH1SF.

— Serhii Tyaglovsky (@tyaglovsky) April 23, 2023.

A meteor fell a few days ago, today the northern lights. What about tomorrow? pic. twitter. com/erZf5Ii102.

— Dima Chykhaida (@chykhaida) April 23, 2023.

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The message spread? (@boikokyrylo).

Earlier, the probability of northern lights in northern Ukraine was predicted at the Space Weather Prediction Center and SpaceWeatherLive. However, scientists expected that this would happen a little later..

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Recall that the northern lights are caused by the collision of charged particles entering the solar wind with the Earth's magnetic field.. Usually it is observed in northern countries, however, due to a very powerful geomagnetic storm, this time it could be seen in Ukraine.