{"id":241824,"date":"2026-01-20T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241824\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:00:07","slug":"northern-lights-dazzle-across-south-west-skies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241824\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights dazzle across South West skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Parts of south-west England have been treated to a dazzling display of the Northern Lights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The lights, or Aurora Borealis, are the result of solar eruptions sending particles towards Earth and the subsequent interaction of those particles with the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A coronal mass ejection (CME), a large eruption of charged matter from the Sun, left the Sun on Sunday, the Met Office said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It said the CME was likely &#8220;to bring aurora across Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England, and potentially further south&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Observers were treated to a full display of pink, red, and green hues as the lights shone over Devon and Cornwall at about 21:30 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parts of south-west England have been treated to a dazzling display of the Northern Lights. The lights, or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-241824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241824","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=241824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}