{"id":638329,"date":"2019-11-21T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=638329"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:48:00","slug":"shimmering-skies-signal-space-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=638329","title":{"rendered":"Shimmering skies signal space weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Shimmering_skies_signal_space_weather_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Shimmering skies signal space weather\" \/><br \/>\n\tImage: <\/p>\n<p>The Aurora, seen here dancing above Svalbard in Norway, is the most beautiful result of space weather on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The lights, most commonly found at polar regions, are totally benign, but they signify something serious happening at Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Space weather describes\u00a0the ever-changing conditions in space, caused by\u00a0intense radiation and colossal amounts of energetic material that the Sun blasts in every direction.<\/p>\n<p>When solar storms reach Earth, they intefere with our planet&#8217;s magnetic field, creating geomagnetic storms with the potential to disrupt and even destroy infrastructure in space and on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>This week, space weather is under the lime light as experts from across Europe meet at the European Space Weather Week in Liege, Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/This_week_we_re_under_the_space_weather\" title=\"ESWW16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and follow the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23esww16&amp;src=typed_query\" title=\"#ESWW16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">#ESWW16<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2019\/11\/Shimmering_skies_signal_space_weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Shimmering skies signal space weather<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The Aurora, seen here dancing above Svalbard in Norway, is the most beautiful result of space weather on Earth. The lights, most commonly found at polar regions, are totally&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638330,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638329","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/638330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}