{"id":118795,"date":"2022-09-14T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sunspot-four-times-the-size-of-earth-shoots-18-million-degree-solar-flare-towards-our-planet"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:38:02","slug":"sunspot-four-times-the-size-of-earth-shoots-18-million-degree-solar-flare-towards-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sunspot-four-times-the-size-of-earth-shoots-18-million-degree-solar-flare-towards-our-planet","title":{"rendered":"Sunspot Four Times the Size of Earth Shoots 18-Million Degree Solar Flare Towards Our Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunspot AR3098, as it&#8217;s known to NASA, shot an 18-million-degree solar flare at Earth recently, but that&#8217;s not why it&#8217;s been so hot lately. Solar flares don&#8217;t actually cause heat waves, but they can affect satellites in orbit. First of all, what even is a solar flare, and how do scientists classify them? We start with a sunspot, which is an area of the sun that&#8217;s darker and cooler than the rest of the sun. This is because the magnetic fields are so intense that heat from the interior of the sun is prevented from escaping. When the magnetic fields suddenly move or shift, that energy is released. This results in either a solar flare, which is an explosion of radiation, or a coronal mass ejection, which is a cloud of plasma. On Earth, these flares can interact with radios, navigation systems, and sometimes even power grids. But, not all flares are of equal intensity. Some are bigger or smaller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunspot AR3098, as it&#8217;s known to NASA, shot an 18-million-degree solar flare at Earth recently, but that&#8217;s not why it&#8217;s been so hot lately. Solar flares don&#8217;t actually cause heat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,1],"tags":[184,292,185,312],"class_list":["post-118795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-news","tag-astronomy","tag-satellites","tag-science","tag-solar-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}