{"id":420504,"date":"2026-01-21T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:12:19","slug":"aurora-lights-up-alaska-skies-with-stunning-green-and-red-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420504\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora lights up Alaska skies with stunning green and red display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE, Alaska \u2014 Streaks of shimmering green and red bands exploded in the dark skies above Alaska&#8217;s largest city Tuesday as the aurora provided a light show for early morning dog walkers, joggers and commuters.<\/p>\n<p>Anchorage was not alone in seeing vivid displays of the aurora following a major disturbance in the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>The aurora didn&#8217;t disappoint, and its reach overnight Monday and into Tuesday was wide. Social media was lit up with stunning aurora photos from places including Alaska, San Francisco, Chicago, Canada and across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The intense displays came amid intense geomagnetic and solar radiation storms, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s Space Weather Prediction Center.<\/p>\n<p>In November, solar storms brought vibrant auroras to parts of Europe, including Hungary and the United Kingdom, and as far south in the United States as Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANCHORAGE, Alaska \u2014 Streaks of shimmering green and red bands exploded in the dark skies above Alaska&#8217;s largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1302,3811,3812,2091,134,3729,7221,3,3813,3814,79,193,99,1505,2987,2427,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-420504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-international","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-science","tag-space","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-travel","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420504","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=420504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}