{"id":10938,"date":"2015-05-25T22:43:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T05:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:34:09","slug":"052915brekke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=10938","title":{"rendered":"May 29, 2015: The Northern Lights: From Myths to Modern Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed Norwegian solar physicist P\u00e5l Brekke will lead a discussion on the fascinating phenomena of the Aurora Borealis centered on his new prize-winning documentary, The Northern Lights: A Magic Experience (duration 25 minutes).\u00a0 After the screening, Brekke will talk about his experience as a longtime observer of the northern lights and his work with the documentary. In addition to Brekke\u2019s work as a senior adviser at the Norwegian Space Center, he also worked for the European Space Agency as the deputy scientist for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.<a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bilde-2015-01-24-kl.-10.55.58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11093 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bilde-2015-01-24-kl.-10.55.58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bilde-2015-01-24-kl.-10.55.58.jpg 343w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bilde-2015-01-24-kl.-10.55.58-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed Norwegian solar physicist P\u00e5l Brekke will lead a discussion on the fascinating phenomena of the Aurora Borealis centered on his new prize-winning documentary, The Northern Lights: A Magic Experience (duration 25 minutes).\u00a0 After the screening, Brekke will talk about his experience as a longtime observer of the northern lights and his work with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=10938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May 29, 2015: The Northern Lights: From Myths to Modern Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11094,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions\/11094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}