{"id":381083,"date":"2026-01-20T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381083\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:21:08","slug":"northern-lights-captured-over-jersey-and-guernsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381083\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights captured over Jersey and Guernsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Northern Lights have put on a show in the skies over the Channel Islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The natural phenomenon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0q4pj5j729o\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">known as the Aurora Borealis<\/a>, is the result of solar eruptions sending particles towards the Earth and interacting with particles in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the Jersey Meteorological Section, it happens when electrically charged particles are emitted from the sun in large bursts, called a solar flare or coronal mass ejection (CME).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Winter, senior forecaster at Jersey Met, said the islands had seen the lights more frequently in recent years as the sun is in its &#8220;solar maximum&#8221; period when it is most active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Lights have put on a show in the skies over the Channel Islands. The natural phenomenon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-381083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381083","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=381083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}