{"id":74870,"date":"2025-10-22T10:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2025\/oct\/22\/red-lightning-new-zealand-red-sprites"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:05:51","slug":"a-perfect-coincidence-rare-red-lightning-captured-in-new-zealand-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74870","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A perfect coincidence\u2019: rare red lightning captured in New Zealand skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographers capture extremely unusual phenomenon \u2013 also known as red sprites \u2013 against backdrop of the Milky Way<\/p>\n<p>A trio of photographers in New Zealand have captured images of \u201cred sprites\u201d, or red lightning, one of the rarest light phenomena in the world, in which luminous crimson flashes appear in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand photographer Tom Rae and Spanish photographers Dan Zafra and Jos\u00e9 Cantabrana set out to shoot the Milky Way over the \u014cm\u0101rama Clay cliffs in the South Island on 11 October, when they chanced upon the extraordinary event.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2025\/oct\/22\/red-lightning-new-zealand-red-sprites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographers capture extremely unusual phenomenon \u2013 also known as red sprites \u2013 against backdrop of the Milky WayA trio of photographers in New Zealand have captured images of \u201cred sprites\u201d, or red lightning, one of the rarest light phenomena in the w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,56,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-photography"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74870","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74871,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74870\/revisions\/74871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}