{"id":800224,"date":"2026-01-20T17:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800224"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:33:29","slug":"the-aurora-borealis-was-visible-in-much-of-the-u-s-last-night-due-to-a-solar-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800224","title":{"rendered":"The aurora borealis was visible in much of the U.S. last night due to a solar storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>We talk with a NOAA scientist about the Northern Lights, and why their visibility seems to be increasing.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/20\/nx-s1-5683125\/the-aurora-borealis-was-visible-in-much-of-the-u-s-last-night-due-to-a-solar-storm?rand=771664\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talk with a NOAA scientist about the Northern Lights, and why their visibility seems to be increasing. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800224","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=800224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}