{"id":287208,"date":"2026-02-16T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287208\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:40:10","slug":"photo-of-the-week-this-giant-lightning-bolt-shooting-from-earth-into-space-is-breathtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287208\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week: This Giant Lightning Bolt Shooting from Earth into Space Is Breathtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tPhoto of the Week: This Giant Lightning Bolt Shooting from Earth into Space Is Breathtaking &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>February 16, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-semaine-jet-bleu.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"image-week-jet-bleu\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Last July, American astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed sprites and a blue jet over Mexico and the United States. \u00a9 @astro_ayers, Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week: This Giant Lightning Bolt Shooting from Earth into Space Is Breathtaking &#8211; Futura-Sciences February&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[159794,159795,159796,111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-287208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-atmospheric-phenomena","tag-blue-jets","tag-high-altitude-lightning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287208","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=287208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}