{"id":9647,"date":"2019-02-21T02:28:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T09:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9647"},"modified":"2019-03-04T02:40:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T09:40:23","slug":"dragon-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/21\/dragon-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/02\/19\/nasa-photographs-mysterious-dragon-aurora-rearing-head-sky-8669057\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Metro<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Nasa releases picture of mysterious \u2018dragon\u2019 aurora rearing its head in the sky<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0Jasper Hamill<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dragonaurora_zhang_2241-5f00.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;zoom=1&amp;resize=540%2C777&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" \/><em>A view0 of the mysterious dragon aurora snapped in Iceland on February 18 (Photo: Jingyi Zhang &amp; Wang Zheng)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NASA has released incredible pictures of an unusual \u2018dragon\u2019 aurora roaring silently in the sky over Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>The stunning natural wonder was caused by particles emited from the sun which smash into the atmosphere to cause a dramatic light display.<\/p>\n<p>Nasa wrote: \u2018Have you ever seen a dragon in the sky? Although real flying dragons don\u2019t exist, a huge dragon-shaped aurora developed in the sky over Iceland earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The aurora was caused by a hole in the Sun\u2019s corona that expelled charged particles into a solar wind that followed a changing interplanetary magnetic field to Earth\u2019s magnetosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018As some of those particles then struck Earth\u2019s atmosphere, they excited atoms which subsequently emitted light: aurora.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This iconic display was so enthralling that the photographer\u2019s mother ran out to see it and was captured in the foreground.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/02\/19\/nasa-photographs-mysterious-dragon-aurora-rearing-head-sky-8669057\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Metro<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Metro Nasa releases picture of mysterious \u2018dragon\u2019 aurora rearing its head in the sky by\u00a0Jasper Hamill A view0 of the mysterious dragon aurora snapped in Iceland on February 18 (Photo: Jingyi Zhang &amp; Wang Zheng) NASA has released incredible pictures of an unusual \u2018dragon\u2019 aurora roaring silently in the sky over Iceland. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}