{"id":708164,"date":"2026-01-20T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/708164\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:52:11","slug":"watch-northern-lights-dazzle-scotland-in-spectacular-celestial-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/708164\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Northern Lights dazzle Scotland in spectacular celestial display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Skywatchers across Scotland have been treated to a celestial display as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25580295.stunning-northern-lights-visible-uk-tonight\/?ref=ed_direct\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aurora Borealis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aurora Borealis<\/a> lit up the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Striking red and green skies were spotted across much of the country last night from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/25766989.money-ferry-replacement-secured-budget-says-council\/?ref=ed_direct\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Orkney;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Orkney<\/a> in the north all the way to the Borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Northern Lights appeared as bright, swirling curtains of light in the night sky and range in colour from green to pink and scarlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The phenomenon is caused by charged particles from the sun hitting gases in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The particularly strong emission on Monday caused the Lights to be seen globally, with reports of incidents coming from as far away as China and Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two most common gases in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere are nitrogen and oxygen. Oxygen atoms glow green &#8211; the colour most often seen in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/national\/uk-today\/25611930.northern-lights-visible-skies-across-uk-tonight\/?ref=ed_direct\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Northern Lights;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Northern Lights<\/a>, while nitrogen atoms emit purple, blue and pink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The most impressive auroras occur when the Sun emits really large clouds of particles called &#8220;coronal mass ejections&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skywatchers across Scotland have been treated to a celestial display as the Aurora Borealis lit up the night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[8134,748,54436,4884,212496,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-708164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-aurora-borealis","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-dumfries","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northernlights","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115926344867814890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}