{"id":245243,"date":"2026-01-22T00:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245243\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:13","slug":"northern-lights-give-stunning-display-across-south-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245243\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights give stunning display across south of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Skies across the south of England have been filled with hues of green, pink and red by the Northern Lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The vivid lights, or <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/av\/31933945\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aurora Borealis<\/a>, appeared as bright, flowing areas of lights on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The displays are caused by charged particles from the Sun colliding with gases in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere around the magnetic poles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The lights were spotted the length and breadth of the region, with many weather watchers out in force to snap the beautiful display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skies across the south of England have been filled with hues of green, pink and red by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-245243","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\/245243","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=245243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}