{"id":129441,"date":"2021-10-23T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T01:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-vast-magnetic-tunnel-may-surround-earth-and-our-entire-solar-system"},"modified":"2021-10-23T18:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T01:24:37","slug":"a-vast-magnetic-tunnel-may-surround-earth-and-our-entire-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-vast-magnetic-tunnel-may-surround-earth-and-our-entire-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"A Vast \u201cMagnetic Tunnel\u201d May Surround Earth and Our Entire Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-vast-magnetic-tunnel-may-surround-earth-and-our-entire-solar-system.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Toronto astronomer\u2019s research suggests the solar system is surrounded by a magnetic tunnel that can be seen in radio waves.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer West, a research associate at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, is making a scientific case that two bright structures seen on opposite sides of the sky \u2013 previously considered to be separate \u2013 are actually connected and are made of rope-like filaments. The connection forms what looks like a tunnel around our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The data results of West\u2019s research have been published in the <em>Astrophysical Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Toronto astronomer\u2019s research suggests the solar system is surrounded by a magnetic tunnel that can be seen in radio waves. Jennifer West, a research associate at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, is making a scientific case that two bright structures seen on opposite sides of the sky \u2013 previously considered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129441","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}