{"id":370663,"date":"2017-09-08T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=45e393ab7b03d8b186c9166635e5b426"},"modified":"2017-09-08T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:00:01","slug":"massive-sunspots-and-huge-solar-flares-mean-unexpected-space-weather-for-earth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=370663","title":{"rendered":"Massive sunspots and huge solar flares mean unexpected space weather for Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you still have your solar viewing glasses from the eclipse, now is a good time to slap them on and look up at the sun. You&#8217;ll see two big dark areas visible on our star. These massive sunspots are regions of intense and complicated magnetic fields that can produce solar flares \u2013 bursts of high-energy radiation. You can just make them out with solar viewing glasses, but they&#8217;re better viewed through a solar telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you still have your solar viewing glasses from the eclipse, now is a good time to slap them on and look up at the sun. You&#8217;ll see two big dark areas visible on our star. These massive sunspots are regions of intense and complicated magnetic fields that can produce solar flares &ndash; bursts of high-energy radiation. You can just make them out with solar viewing glasses, but they&#8217;re better viewed through a solar telescope.<\/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-370663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370663","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=370663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370664,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370663\/revisions\/370664"}],"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=370663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}