{"id":132687,"date":"2025-11-10T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132687\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:34:09","slug":"public-asked-to-submit-photos-of-aurora-borealis-sightings-in-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/132687\/","title":{"rendered":"Public asked to submit photos of aurora borealis sightings in Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Cork people are being encouraged to contribute photos of the northern lights to help compile Ireland\u2019s largest archive of aurora borealis images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Led by Alexandra Ruth Fogg, postdoctoral fellow with Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), the initiative asks people to share photographs taken during the Northern Lights displays in May and October of 2024, which were caused by some of the most intense geomagnetic storms of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Spectacular images were captured across the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4854321_2_articleinline_Lord_20Mayor_20Visit-1_67_.jpeg\" alt=\"The Northern Lights visible above Cork skies over Passage West last October\u00a0 Picture Chani Anderson\" title=\"The Northern Lights visible above Cork skies over Passage West last October\u00a0 Picture Chani Anderson\" class=\"card-img\"\/>The Northern Lights visible above Cork skies over Passage West last October\u00a0 Picture Chani Anderson<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Now DIAS researchers are asking people to share these images as part of a citizen science research project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Ms Fogg said that data and images gathered will provide valuable insights into space weather and contribute to Ireland\u2019s understanding of this natural phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">To find out more about the project and submit your photos, visit\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/eclv.ie\/DIAS\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork people are being encouraged to contribute photos of the northern lights to help compile Ireland\u2019s largest archive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[46,79,11040,61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-132687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-cork","9":"tag-cork-news","10":"tag-cork-people","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}