{"id":296055,"date":"2017-04-03T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0bbbc6d42d0799f6e4342de217675429"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:09:54","slug":"solar-dynamics-observatory-captured-trio-of-solar-flares-april-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=296055","title":{"rendered":"Solar Dynamics Observatory captured trio of solar flares April 2-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. The first peaked at 4:02 a.m. EDT on April 2, the second peaked at 4:33 p.m. EDT on April 2, and the third peaked at 10:29 a.m. EDT on April 3. NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of the three events. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however\u2014when intense enough\u2014they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. The first peaked at 4:02 a.m. EDT on April 2, the second peaked at 4:33 p.m. EDT on April 2, and the third peaked at 10:29 a.m. EDT on April 3. NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of the three events. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however&mdash;when intense enough&mdash;they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296055","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296056,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296055\/revisions\/296056"}],"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=296055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}