{"id":240068,"date":"2015-12-02T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f6a9417b0bee89de253af54a6cafad8b"},"modified":"2015-12-02T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:45:00","slug":"the-sun-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240068","title":{"rendered":"The Sun today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/12\/the_sun_today\/15708200-1-eng-GB\/The_Sun_today_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sun as seen through SOHO\u2019s LASCO C2 telescope at 06:24 GMT today, on the 20th anniversary of the satellite\u2019s launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe small white circle in the centre of the image indicates the position and size of the Sun behind the telescope&#8217;s occulting &#8216;coronograph mask&#8217;, seen as the wider disc. The mask blocks out the dazzling light that otherwise drowns out this region, allowing details of the corona \u2013 the Sun&#8217;s dynamic outer atmosphere \u2013 to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/12\/the_sun_today\/15708200-1-eng-GB\/The_Sun_today_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sun as seen through SOHO&rsquo;s LASCO C2 telescope at 06:24 GMT today, on the 20th anniversary of the satellite&rsquo;s launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe small white circle in the centre of the image indicates the position and size of the Sun behind the telescope&#8217;s occulting &#8216;coronograph mask&#8217;, seen as the wider disc. The mask blocks out the dazzling light that otherwise drowns out this region, allowing details of the corona &ndash; the Sun&#8217;s dynamic outer atmosphere &ndash; to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240068","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240069,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240068\/revisions\/240069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}