{"id":118162,"date":"2023-11-07T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/winter-to-bring-best-northern-lights-displays-for-20-years-scientists-say\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T07:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T05:30:33","slug":"winter-to-bring-best-northern-lights-displays-for-20-years-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/winter-to-bring-best-northern-lights-displays-for-20-years-scientists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter to bring best northern lights displays for 20 years, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118162\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThis winter is likely to be a blockbuster year for seeing the Northern Lights as scientists predict the best displays in 20 years, which have already been seen in southern England. The sun is predicted to reach the peak of its approximately 11-year activity cycle \u2013 known as \u201csolar maximum\u201d \u2013 between January and October 2024, bringing with it spectacular aurora displays both in lower polar regions and further south in Europe. The next solar maximum is especially highly anticipated after the last one \u2013 in December 2019 \u2013 was the weakest in a century. It comes after the northern lights lit up much of the UK and Ireland over the weekend, reaching as far south as Stonehenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect there to be more aurora activity than there\u2019s been in the last 20 years,\u201d said Nj\u00e5l Gulbrandsen, a space physics researcher at Troms\u00f8 Geophysical Observatory, part of the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). As the sun approaches its peak, there have been more solar storms, creating more aurora, visible further south than normal. \u201cIt\u2019s mostly because of this 11-year solar cycle that the activity is now picking up quite a lot,\u201d he added. \u201cThere is another factor \u2013 that the last solar cycle was a weak one \u2013 so it might be that activity now is almost the strongest it\u2019s been in almost 20 years. We have to go far back to see this level of activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Usually the best regions to see the northern lights \u2013 created when lots of particles come from the sun towards Earth \u2013 are northern Norway, the northern parts of Finland and Sweden, Iceland, the northern US and Canada and the southern part of Greenland. But during the solar maximum, the auroral oval expands, meaning it will be visible in locations across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be more spectacular displays in the normal locations that you think of, but also really nice displays further south than you would normally expect,\u201d said Katie Herlingshaw, a space physics researcher at the University Centre in Svalbard (Unis). \u201cIt\u2019s really exciting to get this good solar maximum now because a lot of people have forgotten what a good solar maximum actually looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Herlingshaw, who is researching a new type of aurora, known as \u201cfragments\u201d (green light that appears near traditional auroral arcs), added: \u201cWhen we have these big solar storms, then you should be able to see it in Europe and in the UK when you have something big on the way. The key is there that you should just go to a dark place. You want to get out of the city lights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/06\/winter-best-northern-lights-displays-for-20-years-scientists-say\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/winter-to-bring-best-northern-lights-displays-for-20-years-scientists-say\/\">Winter to bring best northern lights displays for 20 years, scientists say<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,12146],"class_list":["post-118162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-northern-lights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}