{"id":129650,"date":"2021-10-28T18:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/sun-fires-off-major-solar-flare-from-earth-facing-sunspot"},"modified":"2021-10-28T18:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:22:36","slug":"sun-fires-off-major-solar-flare-from-earth-facing-sunspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/sun-fires-off-major-solar-flare-from-earth-facing-sunspot","title":{"rendered":"Sun fires off major solar flare from Earth-facing sunspot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sun-fires-off-major-solar-flare-from-earth-facing-sunspot3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar particles blasted out in association with the flare could hit Earth tomorrow (Oct. 29).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A major solar flare erupted from the sun on Thursday (Oct. 28) in the strongest storm yet of our star\u2019s current weather cycle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\">The sun<\/a> fired off an X1-class solar flare, its most powerful kind of flare, that peaked at 11:35 a.m. EDT (1535 GMT), according to an alert from the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), which tracks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/11506-space-weather-sunspots-solar-flares-coronal-mass-ejections.html\">space weather<\/a> events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar particles blasted out in association with the flare could hit Earth tomorrow (Oct. 29). A major solar flare erupted from the sun on Thursday (Oct. 28) in the strongest storm yet of our star\u2019s current weather cycle. The sun fired off an X1-class solar flare, its most powerful kind of flare, that peaked at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129650","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=129650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}