{"id":243233,"date":"2026-01-14T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243233\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:40:10","slug":"dazzling-aurora-captured-from-space-just-days-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243233\/","title":{"rendered":"Dazzling aurora captured from space just days before\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch as a dazzling aurora shines across the surface of the earth in impressive footage captured from the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n<p>The video, which was shared by Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui on Sunday (11 January), shows a phenomenal blend of pink, teal and purple lights dancing above the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Yui, who is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/space\/nasa-iss-medical-evacuation-astronaut-b2898904.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">leave the ISS as part of a medical evacuation <\/a>on Wednesday (14 January), wrote: &#8220;Knowing that I would soon return, the sun must have tried its best, as I was able to capture a very beautiful aurora.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was happy to have captured it, but above all, imagining everyone smiling with joy upon seeing the footage, I laughed to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch as a dazzling aurora shines across the surface of the earth in impressive footage captured from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2476,3109,3113,61,3107,60,43,3110,3108,3111,82,247,3112,268],"class_list":["post-243233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-global-news","tag-ie","tag-inkl","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-science","tag-space","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243233","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=243233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}