{"id":129785,"date":"2021-11-01T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-sun-just-blasted-the-earth-with-an-enormous-solar-flare"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:23:03","slug":"the-sun-just-blasted-the-earth-with-an-enormous-solar-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-sun-just-blasted-the-earth-with-an-enormous-solar-flare","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Just Blasted the Earth With an Enormous Solar Flare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-sun-just-blasted-the-earth-with-an-enormous-solar-flare2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar activity can heat up so much, in fact, that the Sun\u2019s magnetic poles end up flipping, blasting off massive amounts of solar material in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest X-class solar flare ever recorded was an X28-class flare, meaning that it was 28 times more powerful than the October 28 flare, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/sunearth\/news\/X-class-flares.html\" class=\"\">according to NASA<\/a>. It may have been even more powerful than that, as the sensors cut out at that level.<\/p>\n<p>These events are the biggest explosions in the solar system and can release as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs, according to NASA. So even though the Sun enables life on Earth, don\u2019t ever forget its potential for terrible destruction as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar activity can heat up so much, in fact, that the Sun\u2019s magnetic poles end up flipping, blasting off massive amounts of solar material in the process. The strongest X-class solar flare ever recorded was an X28-class flare, meaning that it was 28 times more powerful than the October 28 flare, according to NASA. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129785","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=129785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}