{"id":368824,"date":"2017-09-05T16:31:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5e6f5d20d24764336231db41be4aa904"},"modified":"2017-09-05T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:31:50","slug":"sdo-captures-image-of-mid-level-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=368824","title":{"rendered":"SDO captures image of mid-level flare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 4:33 pm EDT on Sept. 4, 2017. NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. 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 mid-level solar flare, peaking at 4:33 pm EDT on Sept. 4, 2017. NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. 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-368824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368824","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=368824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368825,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368824\/revisions\/368825"}],"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=368824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}