{"id":190375,"date":"2025-10-04T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190375\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:30:07","slug":"northern-lights-in-oxfordshire-tonight-where-and-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190375\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights in Oxfordshire tonight: Where and when"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Stargazers across the country were lucky enough to catch several\u00a0glimpses of the Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, several times in 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Although sightings have been less frequent since the turn of the new year, we are now heading into the period of the year when most sightings are made.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Photographers across the county spotted the phenomenon last year and captured some stunning photos, and will hope to do so again if the sky is clear enough.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25510272.pub-closes-armed-police-glass-smashed-across-bartenders-face\/?ref=ed_recent?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pub closes with armed police as &#8216;glass smashed across bartender&#8217;s face&#8217;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    Amber alert: possible aurora. Issued 2025-10-01 17:12 UTC (18:12 BST) by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aurorawatchuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@aurorawatchuk<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/aurora?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#aurora<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kpyBHvIW3U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kpyBHvIW3U<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 AuroraWatch UK (@aurorawatchuk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aurorawatchuk\/status\/1973435916996825480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 1, 2025<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n  An amber alert has been issued this evening (Wednesday, October 1) by Aurora Watch, stating that a sighting may be able to be made in the UK tonight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Some of the best locations to see the Northern Lights in Oxfordshire include the Rollright Stones, with the ancient stone circle offering a rural setting for viewing the lights\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Blenheim Palace Park, over in Woodstock, of course, features expansive, open grounds with views away from city lights.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cotswold Water Park in the west of the county has a scenic lake district with minimal light pollution, but it is a bit further away from Oxford.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25510081.13-year-old-boy-attacked-complete-stranger-city\/?ref=ed_recent?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">13-year-old boy &#8216;attacked by complete stranger&#8217; in city<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The Northern Lights (Pic: Alison Hamlin Hughes).(Image: )\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Northern Lights will usually, when\u00a0visible, be prominent\u00a0from 11pm onwards, with sightings often made in the early hours of the morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They generally appear in high-latitude regions such as the Arctic or Scandinavia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their colourful glow is caused by a stream of charged particles that have escaped the sun (known as solar wind) interacting with the Earth\u2019s magnetic field.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The particles hit our atmosphere at high speed and combine with oxygen and nitrogen to create a multicoloured burst.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stargazers across the country were lucky enough to catch several\u00a0glimpses of the Northern Lights, also known as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-190375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}