The Northern Lights were visible across large parts of Somerset on Sunday, with photographers snapping spectacular photographs of the natural light display.

Also known as the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights are more commonly seen in Scandinavia. But on Sunday night, bright rays of purple light graced the skies in the West Somerset and Wellington areas.

Laura Grant captured the light display from Haddon Hill, near Wimbleball Lake. As a designated dark skies reserve, Exmoor is a terrific spot to spy every detail of the night sky.

Debbie Tucker took a series of spectacular snaps of the Northern Lights over Lynmouth in Exmoor. While driving home from a trip to Lynton, a notification from an aurora spotting app alerted Ms Tucker to the presence of the lights, before she pulled over to shoot them.

The Northern Lights are a cosmological phenomena, caused by the Sun ejecting electromagnetic matter into space.

This matter is known as solar wind, and when they reach the earth's atmosphere, the earth's atmosphere is distorted. The light is caused by the collision of particles and gases in the atmosphere, as the impacts release photon energy.

Though the lights can appear to hang low in the sky, they are typically as high as 50 miles into the air.