UNUSUAL - It's a rare event, but it's starting to become a little less so. For the third time this year, the Northern Lights could be observed in France and other European countries on Sunday evening, November 5.

On social networks, users located in Auvergne, Alsace, the Alps, but also on the Côte d'Azur, shared photos of this moving nocturnal spectacle.

The phenomenon has also been observed in other countries, notably in Ukraine, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom where magnificent colors could be observed above the Stonehenge site.

Caused by solar flares, the Northern Lights are rarer at lower latitudes, such as in France, where they are observable approximately every ten years, provided that the solar flare is strong enough and oriented in the right direction. If the countries of the Far North record up to several hundred per year, France has already seen them twice this year, in February and April.

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