{"id":226785,"date":"2025-12-09T13:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/radiowave-bursts-linked-to-onset-of-intense-auroral-storms"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:17:17","slug":"radiowave-bursts-linked-to-onset-of-intense-auroral-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/radiowave-bursts-linked-to-onset-of-intense-auroral-storms","title":{"rendered":"Radiowave bursts linked to onset of intense auroral storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radiowave-bursts-linked-to-onset-of-intense-auroral-storms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Southampton study has revealed an intriguing new clue in the mystery of what triggers periods of very intense, brightly colored activity during displays of both the southern and northern lights.<\/p>\n<p>Known as a \u201cmagnetospheric substorm,\u201d this awe-inspiring phenomenon, which blankets the night sky in green and purple, is almost always preceded by what space scientists call \u201cauroral beads\u201d\u2014a necklace-like wave of multiple luminous points of light which eventually evolve into the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton scientists have now shown there is a link between these auroral beads and the intensity of low frequency radio waves above the aurora in Earth\u2019s magnetosphere\u2014a vast area around our planet that is dominated by its magnetic field. Their findings are published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Southampton study has revealed an intriguing new clue in the mystery of what triggers periods of very intense, brightly colored activity during displays of both the southern and northern lights. Known as a \u201cmagnetospheric substorm,\u201d this awe-inspiring phenomenon, which blankets the night sky in green and purple, is almost always preceded by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226785","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}