{"id":334506,"date":"2017-06-22T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=468f7b65f99deefd0e613e5d2d416615"},"modified":"2017-06-22T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:01:07","slug":"scientists-uncover-origins-of-the-suns-swirling-spicules-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=334506","title":{"rendered":"Scientists uncover origins of the Sun&#8217;s swirling spicules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun&#8217;s surface. They erupt as fast as 60 miles per second, and can reach lengths of 6,000 miles before collapsing. These are spicules, and despite their grass-like abundance, scientists didn&#8217;t understand how they form. Now, for the first time, a computer simulation\u2014so detailed it took a full year to run\u2014shows how spicules form, helping scientists understand how spicules can break free of the sun&#8217;s surface and surge upward so quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun&#8217;s surface. They erupt as fast as 60 miles per second, and can reach lengths of 6,000 miles before collapsing. These are spicules, and despite their grass-like abundance, scientists didn&#8217;t understand how they form. Now, for the first time, a computer simulation&mdash;so detailed it took a full year to run&mdash;shows how spicules form, helping scientists understand how spicules can break free of the sun&#8217;s surface and surge upward so quickly.<\/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-334506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334506","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=334506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334507,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334506\/revisions\/334507"}],"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=334506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}