{"id":12597,"date":"2014-11-17T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:03:49","slug":"is-our-sun-falling-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/is-our-sun-falling-silent","title":{"rendered":"Is our Sun falling silent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline byline-photo\"><span class=\"byline-name\">By Rebecca Morelle<\/span><\/span> \u2014 BBC<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">\u201cI\u2019ve been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I\u2019ve never seen anything quite like this,\u201d says Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n<p>He shows me recent footage captured by spacecraft that have their sights trained on our star. The Sun is revealed in exquisite detail, but its face is strangely featureless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive\u2026 you\u2019ve got to go back about 100 years,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>R<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-25743806\" target=\"_blank\">ead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rebecca Morelle \u2014 BBC \u201cI\u2019ve been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I\u2019ve never seen anything quite like this,\u201d says Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. He shows me recent footage captured by spacecraft that have their sights trained on our star. The Sun is revealed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545,1507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64874,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions\/64874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}