{"id":287790,"date":"2025-11-12T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287790\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:08:10","slug":"beauty-of-northern-lights-fill-sky-over-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287790\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty of northern lights fill sky over Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A large coronal mass ejection, or CME, hurtled through space and hit Earth square on, creating a mid-latitude aurora borealis sub-storm, Tuesday night, Nov. 11, 2025. The photo was made on Geysers Road viewing north over Black Mountain in the Mayacamas Mountains. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)\" width=\"3600\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TPD-L-kp1111_Aurora_04_247097036.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"3335352\" \/>A large coronal mass ejection, or CME, hurtled through space and hit Earth square on, creating a mid-latitude aurora borealis sub-storm, Tuesday night, Nov. 11, 2025.  The photo was made on Geysers  Road viewing north over Black Mountain in the Mayacamas Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The skies glowed red Tuesday night across parts of Northern California as the northern lights lent their rare glow overhead, the result of a strong geomagnetic storm that pushed the aurora further south. Press Democrat photojournalist Kent Porter captured the spectacle along Geysers Road and along Dry Creek Road in Healdsburg.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said heightened solar activity fueled the vibrant display as the sun nears the peak of its 11-year solar cycle. Stargazers in Sonoma and Napa counties had another chance to glimpse the lights between 8 and 10 p.m. Wednesday, particularly from darker rural areas with a clear view to the north, weather permitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large coronal mass ejection, or CME, hurtled through space and hit Earth square on, creating a mid-latitude&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[151392,192,79],"class_list":["post-287790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-aurora-borealis-northern-lights-photos","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287790","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=287790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}