{"id":135498,"date":"2025-11-12T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135498\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:55:07","slug":"northern-lights-illuminate-irish-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135498\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights illuminate Irish skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Lights were visible across the country last night, with red and green hues illuminating the night sky.<\/p>\n<p>The displays were widespread, with social media users sharing photos of the phenomenon from all corners of the island.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora displays occur when charged particles collide with gases in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere around the magnetic poles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A view of the Aurora Borealis over Courtmasherry in Co Cork\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/002377aa-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nA view of the aurora borealis over Courtmacsherry in Co Cork (Photo: Alan Mac C\u00e1rthaigh)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A view of the Northern Lights over Courtmacsherry in Co Cork\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/002377ad-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n(Photo: Alan Mac C\u00e1rthaigh)<\/p>\n<p>As they collide, light is emitted at various wavelengths, creating colourful displays in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The auroras, which are most commonly seen over high polar latitudes but can spread south, are chiefly influenced by geomagnetic storms which originate from activity on the sun.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Just keeps going and these are just holding phone in long exposure mode of 3 seconds. Amazing display of Northern Lights captured in Carlow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ws2JQWUcs3\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ws2JQWUcs3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carlow Weather (@CarlowWeather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarlowWeather\/status\/1988444108352823367\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G4 severe geomagnetic storm watch in response to potential geomagnetic storm effects related to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that have erupted from the sun over the past several days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A view of the Northern Lights over Oran, Roscommon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/002377ae-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe Northern Lights seen over Oran, Roscommon (Photo: Frieda Lawless)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A view of the Northern Lights over Sandymount Strand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/002377a0-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe displays are influenced by geomagnetic storms from solar activity<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Red hues of light over Sandyford Strand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/002377a9-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>These CME events began on Sunday and continued until this morning with aurora displays also observed across North America.<\/p>\n<p>The aurora borealis is seen regularly in Irish skies, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2025\/0416\/1507939-northern-lights-ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">significant displays observed earlier this year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Lights were visible across the country last night, with red and green hues illuminating the night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-135498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135498","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=135498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}