{"id":132505,"date":"2025-11-13T06:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132505\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:23:07","slug":"in-pictures-auroras-light-the-sky-during-solar-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132505\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Auroras light the sky during solar storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar storms created a dazzling display of auroras this week, beginning Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The northern lights, or aurora borealis, and southern lights, or aurora australis, danced in the skies across regions where they are rarely witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>The auroras were caused by energetic particles released by the sun during severe solar storms on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of colors appeared in the night sky as the particles hit Earth&#8217;s magnetic field and interact with gases in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solar storms created a dazzling display of auroras this week, beginning Tuesday night. The northern lights, or aurora&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-132505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}