{"id":379810,"date":"2026-01-20T06:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379810\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:52:07","slug":"northern-lights-illuminate-uk-skies-in-hues-of-pink-and-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379810\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights illuminate UK skies in hues of pink and green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office said &#8220;severe geomagnetic storms&#8221; were observed, producing &#8220;widespread auroras visible across the UK, with reports extending as far south as northern Italy&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The activity is expected to decline but may still be visible in parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland on Tuesday, it added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office said the aurora was the result of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) &#8211; when the Sun emits really large clouds of particles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colours are then produced when those particles hit oxygen and nitrogen gases in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Oxygen atoms glow green &#8211; the colour most often seen in the Northern Lights, while nitrogen atoms emit purple, blue and pink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Met Office said &#8220;severe geomagnetic storms&#8221; were observed, producing &#8220;widespread auroras visible across the UK, with reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-379810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}