{"id":800219,"date":"2026-01-20T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800219"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:04:29","slug":"coronal-mass-ejection-erupts-from-the-sun-on-18-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800219","title":{"rendered":"Coronal Mass Ejection erupts from the Sun on 18 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>This GIF shows a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) leaving the Sun at high speed and heading towards Earth on 18 January 2026. The GIF combines data from NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory (Sun disk) with coronagraph images acquired using the LASCO instrument onboard the ESA\/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8216;halo&#8217; CME appears to grow radially outwards from the Sun in many directions, indicating that it is heading in Earth&#8217;s general direction.<\/p>\n<p>Video created with ESA&#8217;s JHelioViewer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/01\/Coronal_Mass_Ejection_erupts_from_the_Sun_on_18_January_2026?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This GIF shows a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) leaving the Sun at high speed and heading towards Earth on 18 January 2026. The GIF combines data from NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800219","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\/800219","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=800219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}