{"id":283034,"date":"2026-01-14T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:42:09","slug":"dazzling-aurora-captured-from-space-just-days-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283034\/","title":{"rendered":"Dazzling aurora captured from space just days before\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch as a dazzling aurora shines across the surface of the earth in impressive footage captured from the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n<p>The video, which was shared by Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui on Sunday (11 January), shows a phenomenal blend of pink, teal and purple lights dancing above the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Yui, who is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/space\/nasa-iss-medical-evacuation-astronaut-b2898904.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">leave the ISS as part of a medical evacuation <\/a>on Wednesday (14 January), wrote: &#8220;Knowing that I would soon return, the sun must have tried its best, as I was able to capture a very beautiful aurora.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was happy to have captured it, but above all, imagining everyone smiling with joy upon seeing the footage, I laughed to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch as a dazzling aurora shines across the surface of the earth in impressive footage captured from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[9,1063,18,1831,19,1826,17,5,1828,1827,1829,133,451,1830,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-283034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-daily-news","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-inkl","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-news-app","17":"tag-news-headlines","18":"tag-news-today","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-space","21":"tag-today-news","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115890916263033365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}