{"id":140860,"date":"2022-06-20T19:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T00:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/sunspot-set-to-burst-and-fling-solar-flare-directly-at-earth-causing-storm"},"modified":"2022-06-20T19:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T00:23:20","slug":"sunspot-set-to-burst-and-fling-solar-flare-directly-at-earth-causing-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/sunspot-set-to-burst-and-fling-solar-flare-directly-at-earth-causing-storm","title":{"rendered":"Sunspot set to burst and fling solar flare \u2018directly\u2019 at Earth \u2018causing storm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sunspot-set-to-burst-and-fling-solar-flare-directly-at-earth-causing-storm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPACE weather experts are keeping a close eye on an \u201cenormous sunspot\u201d that\u2019s doubled in size in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The unstable patch on the solar surface is directly facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/topic\/earth\/\">Earth<\/a> so if it bursts it could fling solar flares our way.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/5401979\/dangers-of-solar-flares-storm-radio-blackout-deadly-radiation\/\">solar flare<\/a> isn\u2019t expected to hit yet but it could be possible if the sunspot continues to grow and behave in an unstable manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPACE weather experts are keeping a close eye on an \u201cenormous sunspot\u201d that\u2019s doubled in size in the past 24 hours. The unstable patch on the solar surface is directly facing Earth so if it bursts it could fling solar flares our way. A solar flare isn\u2019t expected to hit yet but it could be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140860","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=140860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}