{"id":157889,"date":"2023-02-13T16:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/the-sun-let-out-a-powerful-solar-flare-causing-radio-blackouts"},"modified":"2023-02-13T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:25:25","slug":"the-sun-let-out-a-powerful-solar-flare-causing-radio-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/the-sun-let-out-a-powerful-solar-flare-causing-radio-blackouts","title":{"rendered":"The Sun let out a powerful solar flare causing radio blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-sun-let-out-a-powerful-solar-flare-causing-radio-blackouts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The powerful flare caused a radio blackout over South America.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun sent out a very powerful solar flare in the morning hours of Saturday EST time. NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamic Observatory captured a video of the same.<\/p>\n<p>Sunspots and solar flares.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Thomas Faull\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Solar flares are powerful eruptions of electromagnetic radiation from a region of the Sun with an intense magnetic field. This high-intensity magnetic field temporarily stops the convection process on the solar surface, which cools down the region. When observed from a distance, it appears darker than the solar disc and is known as a sunspot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The powerful flare caused a radio blackout over South America. The Sun sent out a very powerful solar flare in the morning hours of Saturday EST time. NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamic Observatory captured a video of the same. Sunspots and solar flares. Thomas Faull\/iStock. Solar flares are powerful eruptions of electromagnetic radiation from a region of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157889","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}