{"id":492561,"date":"2026-03-24T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492561\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:25:11","slug":"more-sightings-of-the-northern-lights-with-stunning-bright-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492561\/","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":492562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-492561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492561","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=492561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}