Northern Lights return for display in skies above Norfolk

The aurora borealis returned from around 8pm on Thursday and were visible into the early hours of Friday morning.

Stargazers were able to see them through their camera lenses and a host of lucky photographers have shared their snaps.

Jenna Rowe captured her view over Cromer (Image: Jenna Rowe)

Zoe Gaffer saw this through her camera from the cliffs at Overstrand (Image: Zoe Gaffer) The gallery of images shows streaks of blue, purple and green painting the night sky. 

Some clouds were also in-shot, but they were scattered enough not to mask the view.

Lindsay Bird captured some beautiful hues from Old Hunstanton beach (Image: Lindsay Bird) This photo was taken at 8.40pm (Image: Lindsay Bird)

The lights are caused by charged particles from the sun hitting gases in the Earth's atmosphere.

When the gases in the Earth's atmosphere are hit, they are energised.

The colours occur due to different gases in the Earth's atmosphere being energised by the charged particles.