{"id":135962,"date":"2022-02-22T23:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T07:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/massive-explosion-on-far-side-of-the-sun-could-have-been-catastrophic-for-earth"},"modified":"2022-02-22T23:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T07:23:28","slug":"massive-explosion-on-far-side-of-the-sun-could-have-been-catastrophic-for-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/massive-explosion-on-far-side-of-the-sun-could-have-been-catastrophic-for-earth","title":{"rendered":"Massive explosion on far side of the sun could have been catastrophic for Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-explosion-on-far-side-of-the-sun-could-have-been-catastrophic-for-earth3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw a very large coronal mass ejection, which is a major storm on the sun,\u201d Todd explained. \u201cIt happened on the far side, which is awfully good because it was enormous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the explosive CME is not expected to strike Earth, images captured by satellite and seismic mapping showing the sheer size of the eruption had many people talking, Todd said.<\/p>\n<p>Todd said scientists estimate the flare stretched to roughly 400,000 kilometers, greater than the distance between the Earth and the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe saw a very large coronal mass ejection, which is a major storm on the sun,\u201d Todd explained. \u201cIt happened on the far side, which is awfully good because it was enormous.\u201d Though the explosive CME is not expected to strike Earth, images captured by satellite and seismic mapping showing the sheer size of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135962","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=135962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}