{"id":182650,"date":"2025-09-26T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182650\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:58:09","slug":"ocean-pulses-with-light-at-sonoma-coast-underneath-brilliance-of-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182650\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean pulses with light at Sonoma Coast underneath brilliance of Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When earth and sky meet the result is electric as this photo taken at Salmon Creek Beach shows. Bioluminescent plankton, which emit light through a chemical reaction, cast a blue glow underneath a night sky dominated by a view of the Milky Way Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"At Salmon Creek Beach north, the Milky Way and ocean bioluminescence make for a visual feast for a visitor, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. Sea Surface Temperatures are running above normal giving glowing dinoflagellate plankton a canvas in which to glow. The phenomenen is most common during fall months in the Bay Area ocean waters. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)\" width=\"2077\" height=\"1149\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TPD-L-kp0924_Bio_Way.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"3276227\" \/>At Salmon Creek Beach north, the Milky Way and ocean bioluminescence make for a visual feast for a visitor, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.  Sea Surface Temperatures are running above normal giving glowing dinoflagellate plankton a canvas in which to glow. The phenomenon is most common during fall months in the Bay Area ocean waters.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When earth and sky meet the result is electric as this photo taken at Salmon Creek Beach shows.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[107816,79,193],"class_list":["post-182650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-milky-way-galaxy-bioluminescent-plankton","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}