{"id":782266,"date":"2024-05-13T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782266"},"modified":"2024-05-13T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:42:54","slug":"aurora-over-utah-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782266","title":{"rendered":"Aurora over Utah &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The aurora paints the sky near Malad City, Utah, red, purple, and green in this May 11, 2024, image. This aurora was sparked by multiple eruptions of solar material\u2014called coronal mass ejections\u2014colliding with Earth\u2019s magnetic field. This interaction with Earth\u2019s magnetic field can spark a geomagnetic storm and send particles from space rocketing down magnetic field lines toward Earth, where they excite molecules in our planet\u2019s upper atmosphere, releasing light and creating auroras.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA\/Bill Dunford<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/aurora-over-utah\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aurora paints the sky near Malad City, Utah, red, purple, and green in this May 11, 2024, image. This aurora was sparked by multiple eruptions of solar material\u2014called coronal&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782266","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=782266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/782267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}