{"id":692793,"date":"2021-06-10T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692793"},"modified":"2021-06-10T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:00:31","slug":"what-causes-the-northern-lights-scientists-finally-know-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692793","title":{"rendered":"What Causes The Northern Lights? Scientists Finally Know For Sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/electronsurfing_wide-23c3fa612b60d5407cee2a2b22bc70e7bff6ccfc.png\" alt=\"An illustration of how electrons &quot;surf&quot; on passing Alfven waves.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An article suggests the natural light show starts when disturbances on the sun pull on Earth&#8217;s magnetic field, creating cosmic waves that launch electrons into the atmosphere to form the aurora.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Austin Montelius\/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/npr-rss-pixel-12.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/10\/1004859458\/what-causes-the-northern-lights-scientists-finally-know-for-sure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What Causes The Northern Lights? Scientists Finally Know For Sure<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article suggests the natural light show starts when disturbances on the sun pull on Earth&#8217;s magnetic field, creating cosmic waves that launch electrons into the atmosphere to form the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}