{"id":163883,"date":"2023-05-14T18:53:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/sunspot-explosion-blasts-out-m-class-solar-flares-causes-radio-blackout-in-usa"},"modified":"2023-05-14T18:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:53:23","slug":"sunspot-explosion-blasts-out-m-class-solar-flares-causes-radio-blackout-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/sunspot-explosion-blasts-out-m-class-solar-flares-causes-radio-blackout-in-usa","title":{"rendered":"Sunspot explosion blasts out M-class solar flares! Causes radio blackout in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sunspot-explosion-blasts-out-m-class-solar-flares-causes-radio-blackout-in-usa3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The possibility of the Sun causing catastrophic damage on Earth might seem something out of a science-fiction film, but this threat is very true. One of the best examples of Solar activity harming Earth was provided by the Roland Emmerich film 2012. It depicted the apocalypse prophesied by the Mayans many centuries ago. The storyline of the movie revolved around the Sun emitting unstable neutrinos because of anomalous energy processes, which were causing the Earth\u2019s core to heat up and eventually lead to its destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Although the \u2018science\u2019 part of the film was a bit over the top, the threat posed by the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.hindustantimes.com\/tags\/sun\" data-name=\"Sun\">Sun<\/a> could cause significant damage on Earth, and a recent solar flare impact gave <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.hindustantimes.com\/tags\/us\" data-name=\"us\">us<\/a> a hint of the Sun\u2019s mighty power.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\" rel='nofollow'>report<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\">spaceweather.com<\/a>, a Reversed-polarity sunspot, given the designation AR3296, exploded on the Sun, blasting out dangerous solar flares directly towards Earth yesterday, May 7. Forecasters at NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) revealed that this explosion on the solar surface produced a M1.5-class <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.hindustantimes.com\/tags\/solar-flare\" data-name=\"solar flare\">solar flare<\/a> which lasted for a substantial amount of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of the Sun causing catastrophic damage on Earth might seem something out of a science-fiction film, but this threat is very true. One of the best examples of Solar activity harming Earth was provided by the Roland Emmerich film 2012. It depicted the apocalypse prophesied by the Mayans many centuries ago. The storyline [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163883","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=163883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}