{"id":247002,"date":"2026-01-23T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247002\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:42:07","slug":"pilot-captures-amazing-aurora-photos-during-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247002\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Captures Amazing Aurora Photos During Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot Captures Amazing Aurora Photos During Flight<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img-48218-01.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img-48218-02.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This week, the Earth was hit with one of the strongest geomagnetic storms in recent years, which made for some gobsmacking displays of the northern lights, even as far south as California. Cruising in a 787 at 37,000 feet on his route from Calgary to London (UK), airline pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/matt_melnyk_photography\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Melnyk<\/a> had perhaps the best view in the world of the aurora and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTvJ84VEcU7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">captured<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTvKAvlkc_J\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTvLNI0Edm8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fantastic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTvSJWHiB0q\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shots<\/a>. He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/stargazing\/auroras\/the-most-incredible-display-of-aurora-ive-ever-seen-in-my-20-years-of-flying-pilot-captures-historic-northern-lights-show-from-37-000-feet-photos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">space.com<\/a> that \u201cThis was the most incredible display of aurora I\u2019ve ever seen in my 20 years of flying!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pilot Captures Amazing Aurora Photos During Flight This week, the Earth was hit with one of the strongest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-247002","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\/247002","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=247002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}