{"id":799563,"date":"2026-10-11T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799563\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:26:11","slug":"what-are-the-northern-lights-and-how-can-you-see-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799563\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Northern Lights and how can you see them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Northern Lights can only be seen during darker evening hours and, unlike the Sun, are safe to look at with the naked eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, you might be able to see more colourful and vivid displays if you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/cg78vee9j32o\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch through a phone camera<\/a>, because cameras on devices are able to view more light than the human eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In order to see the multicolour light show, you&#8217;ll have to wait until quite late at night, usually from 9pm onwards &#8211; so make sure to ask a parent or guardian if you can stay up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You want the sky to be as clear as possible &#8211; if there are clouds, it may obscure your view.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The further away you can be from artificial lights the better, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/av\/64860157\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">light pollution<\/a> can also make the Northern Lights harder to spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And, as the name suggests, you should face north when trying to look for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Lights can only be seen during darker evening hours and, unlike the Sun, are safe to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799563","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=799563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}