{"id":254285,"date":"2026-01-20T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254285\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:06:07","slug":"aurora-displays-across-region-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254285\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora displays across region last night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Northern Lights put on a display in parts of the country last night.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful solar storm was sparked by a strong solar flare on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora displays happen when charged particles collide with gases in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The red and green spectacle was shared widely on social media last night \u2013 and may be visible again in the coming days \u2013 weather dependent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Lights put on a display in parts of the country last night. The powerful solar storm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-254285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254285","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=254285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}