{"id":3014,"date":"2016-04-20T07:27:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/20\/a-sunspot-the-size-of-5-earths-unleashed-a-spectacular-solar-flare-this-week\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T07:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T23:27:43","slug":"a-sunspot-the-size-of-5-earths-unleashed-a-spectacular-solar-flare-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/20\/a-sunspot-the-size-of-5-earths-unleashed-a-spectacular-solar-flare-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A sunspot the size of 5 Earths unleashed a spectacular solar flare this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A NASA satellite tasked with keeping an eye on the sun captured the moment a solar flare burst from the star on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The \u201cmid-level\u201d flare \u2014 seen by NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory \u2014 erupted from a sunspot five times the size of the Earth.\u00a0The sunspot is moving out of view of the Earth now due to the sun’s rotation.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Sun unleashes first X-class solar flare of 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Solar flares are huge eruptions of radiation that burst forth from the star when the sun\u2019s magnetic fields break and release energy.<\/p>\n

The April 17 flare was classified as an M6.7-class flare which are \u201ca tenth the size of the most intense flares, the X-class flares,\u201d NASA said<\/a> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Solar Flare<\/a>, Space Weather<\/a>, Science<\/a>, Nasa<\/a>, and Space<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A NASA satellite tasked with keeping an eye on the sun captured the moment a solar flare burst from the star on Sunday. The \u201cmid-level\u201d flare \u2014 seen by NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory \u2014 erupted from a sunspot five times … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[934,960,2301,958,2302],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-solar-flare","tag-space","tag-space-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}