{"id":134887,"date":"2022-01-29T08:24:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/in-1999-mysterious-finger-like-features-were-spotted-on-the-sun-now-scientists-have-an-explanation"},"modified":"2022-01-29T08:24:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:24:52","slug":"in-1999-mysterious-finger-like-features-were-spotted-on-the-sun-now-scientists-have-an-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/in-1999-mysterious-finger-like-features-were-spotted-on-the-sun-now-scientists-have-an-explanation","title":{"rendered":"In 1999 Mysterious Finger-Like Features Were Spotted on the Sun \u2014 Now Scientists Have an Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-1999-mysterious-finger-like-features-were-spotted-on-the-sun-now-scientists-have-an-explanation.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In January 1999, scientists observed mysterious motions within a solar flare.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike typical flares that showed bright energy erupting outwards from the Sun, this solar flare also displayed a downward flow of motion, as if material was falling back towards the Sun. Described as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1086\/312110\/fulltext\/\">downward-moving dark voids<\/a>,\u201d astronomers wondered what exactly they were seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 1999, scientists observed mysterious motions within a solar flare. Unlike typical flares that showed bright energy erupting outwards from the Sun, this solar flare also displayed a downward flow of motion, as if material was falling back towards the Sun. Described as \u201cdownward-moving dark voids,\u201d astronomers wondered what exactly they were seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134887","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}