{"id":53866,"date":"2023-03-28T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/28\/in-awe-new-zealand-aurora-hunters-entranced-by-unusually-bright-southern-lights-display"},"modified":"2023-03-28T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:12:10","slug":"in-awe-new-zealand-aurora-hunters-entranced-by-unusually-bright-southern-lights-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53866","title":{"rendered":"\u2018In awe\u2019: New Zealand aurora hunters entranced by unusually bright southern lights display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent auroras have been so intense they have been visible as far north as Auckland <\/p>\n<p>The lure of unusually vibrant views of the southern lights in New Zealand has prompted aurora-hunters to drive for hours through the night to capture the \u201celusive\u201d sight on camera, with social media groups devoted to swapping tips growing in size.<\/p>\n<p>The aurora australis is always more visible in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2017\/may\/29\/huge-naked-eye-beams-spectacular-aurora-australis-lights-up-the-southern-skies\">New Zealand and Australian skies<\/a> during autumn and winter \u2013 beginning in March in the southern hemisphere \u2013 but this month, the southern lights have been more visible than usual, analysts say. Auroras \u2013 beautiful light shows in the night sky \u2013 are seen when sunspots erupt, causing solar storms which send material from the sun towards Earth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/28\/in-awe-new-zealand-aurora-hunters-entranced-by-unusually-bright-southern-lights-display\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent auroras have been so intense they have been visible as far north as Auckland The lure of unusually vibrant views of the southern lights in New Zealand has prompted aurora-hunters to drive for hours through the night to capture the \u201celusive\u201d sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,299,297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-space"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53867,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53866\/revisions\/53867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}