{"id":224811,"date":"2014-12-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/holiday-lights-on-the-sun-imagery-of-a-solar-flare"},"modified":"2014-12-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:00:00","slug":"holiday-lights-on-the-sun-imagery-of-a-solar-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=224811","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Lights on the Sun: Imagery of a Solar Flare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:28 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014. NASA\u2019s\u00a0Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the\u00a0event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass\u00a0through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however &#8212; when\u00a0intense enough &#8212; they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and\u00a0communications signals travel. This flare is classified as an X1.8-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while\u00a0the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1,\u00a0an X3 is three times as intense, etc.<\/p>\n<p>> Video: Holiday Lights on the Sun<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: NASA\/SDO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:28 p.m. EST on Dec. 19, 2014. NASA\u2019s\u00a0Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the\u00a0event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass\u00a0through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however &#8212; when\u00a0intense enough &#8212; they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and\u00a0communications signals travel. This flare is classified as an X1.8-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while\u00a0the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1,\u00a0an X3 is three times as intense, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Video: Holiday Lights on the Sun<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: NASA\/SDO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}