{"id":346559,"date":"2026-03-25T06:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346559\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:02:14","slug":"more-sightings-of-the-northern-lights-with-stunning-bright-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346559\/","title":{"rendered":"More sightings of the Northern Lights with stunning bright colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When charged particles from the Sun are guided by Earth&#8217;s magnetic field towards the poles, they collide with gases high in the atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each colour tells its own story, and on a clear night, the sky above becomes a window into the science of our atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As they do, they release energy as light. The colour that appears depends on two things: which gas is hit and how high up the collision happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From the familiar greens of oxygen collisions to the exceptionally rare blues of nitrogen far below, every aurora is a unique display shaped by the Sun, Earth&#8217;s magnetic field and the gases that surround our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When charged particles from the Sun are guided by Earth&#8217;s magnetic field towards the poles, they collide with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-346559","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\/346559","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=346559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}