{"id":181311,"date":"2024-01-24T16:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T22:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-northern-lights-in-2024-are-set-to-be-the-best-in-20-years"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T22:26:29","slug":"the-northern-lights-in-2024-are-set-to-be-the-best-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-northern-lights-in-2024-are-set-to-be-the-best-in-20-years","title":{"rendered":"The northern lights in 2024 are set to be the best in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-northern-lights-in-2024-are-set-to-be-the-best-in-20-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all thanks to what is called the \u201csolar maximum,\u201d when the sun is reaching its peak of a roughly 11-year cycle, which <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/solar-cycle-25-is-here-nasa-noaa-scientists-explain-what-that-means\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">NASA says<\/a> began again in December 2019. The sun\u2019s activity has been ramping up since then, with an expected peak in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simplemost.com\/pilot-gives-passengers-view-northern-lights\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Pilot performs mid-flight maneuver to give passengers a rare view of the northern lights<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, happen in regions around the earth\u2019s magnetic pole. They appear when electrons from solar flares interact with atoms and molecules in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. That in turn creates lights and multiple colors in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s all thanks to what is called the \u201csolar maximum,\u201d when the sun is reaching its peak of a roughly 11-year cycle, which NASA says began again in December 2019. The sun\u2019s activity has been ramping up since then, with an expected peak in July 2025. MORE: Pilot performs mid-flight maneuver to give passengers a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}