{"id":137511,"date":"2022-03-30T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/cannibal-coronal-mass-ejection-will-hit-earth-at-nearly-2-million-mph-scientists-say"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:49:29","slug":"cannibal-coronal-mass-ejection-will-hit-earth-at-nearly-2-million-mph-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/cannibal-coronal-mass-ejection-will-hit-earth-at-nearly-2-million-mph-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cannibal\u2019 coronal mass ejection will hit Earth at nearly 2 million mph, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cannibal-coronal-mass-ejection-will-hit-earth-at-nearly-2-million-mph-scientists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sunspot, called AR2975, has been shooting out flares of electrically charged particles from the sun\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/54652-plasma.html\">plasma<\/a> soup since Monday (March 28). Sunspots are areas on the sun\u2019s surface where powerful magnetic fields, created by the flow of electrical charges, knot into kinks before suddenly snapping. The resulting release of energy launches bursts of radiation called solar flares, or explosive jets of solar material called coronal mass ejections (CMEs).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/solar-waves-moving-too-fast\"><strong>Strange new type of solar wave defies physics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cannibal coronal mass ejections happen when fast-moving solar eruptions overtake earlier eruptions in the same region of space, sweeping up charged particles to form a giant, combined wavefront that triggers a powerful geomagnetic storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sunspot, called AR2975, has been shooting out flares of electrically charged particles from the sun\u2019s plasma soup since Monday (March 28). Sunspots are areas on the sun\u2019s surface where powerful magnetic fields, created by the flow of electrical charges, knot into kinks before suddenly snapping. The resulting release of energy launches bursts of radiation [\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-137511","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\/137511","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=137511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}