{"id":370299,"date":"2017-09-07T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=25d1871e8e1a8604a35502f0948c94ef"},"modified":"2017-09-07T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:25:00","slug":"sohos-view-of-september-solar-flares-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=370299","title":{"rendered":"SOHO\u2019s view of September solar flares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/09\/soho_s_view_of_september_solar_flares\/17139823-1-eng-GB\/SOHO_s_view_of_September_solar_flares_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sun unleashed powerful solar flares on 6 September, one of which was the strongest in over a decade. An X2.2-class flare was launched at 09:10 GMT and an X9.3 flare was observed at 12:02 GMT. An M-class flare was also observed two days earlier on 4 September. The flares were launched from a group of sunspots classified as active region 2673.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe images were captured by the ESA\/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO. The shaded disc at the centre of the image is a mask in SOHO\u2019s LASCO instrument that blocks out direct sunlight to allow study of the faint details in the Sun&#8217;s corona. The white circle added within the disc shows the size and position of the visible Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/09\/soho_s_view_of_september_solar_flares\/17139823-1-eng-GB\/SOHO_s_view_of_September_solar_flares_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sun unleashed powerful solar flares on 6 September, one of which was the strongest in over a decade. An X2.2-class flare was launched at 09:10 GMT and an X9.3 flare was observed at 12:02 GMT. An M-class flare was also observed two days earlier on 4 September. The flares were launched from a group of sunspots classified as active region 2673.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe images were captured by the ESA\/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO. The shaded disc at the centre of the image is a mask in SOHO&rsquo;s LASCO instrument that blocks out direct sunlight to allow study of the faint details in the Sun&#8217;s corona. The white circle added within the disc shows the size and position of the visible Sun.<\/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-370299","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\/370299","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=370299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370300,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370299\/revisions\/370300"}],"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=370299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}