The northern lights will make a rare showing in parts of the UK this weekend, appearing alongside the biggest meteor shower of the year. Two massive plumes of plasma erupting from the Sun, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), will collide with the Earth’s atmosphere on Friday and Saturday night, bringing auroras to southerly latitudes, space weather forecasters have announced. The UK Met Office and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have both predicted that the peak of the aurora borealis displays will come on Saturday. Source: The Independent