{"id":166916,"date":"2023-07-05T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/sun-unleashes-powerful-solar-flare-strong-enough-to-cause-radio-blackouts-on-earth"},"modified":"2023-07-05T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:26:51","slug":"sun-unleashes-powerful-solar-flare-strong-enough-to-cause-radio-blackouts-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/sun-unleashes-powerful-solar-flare-strong-enough-to-cause-radio-blackouts-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Sun unleashes powerful solar flare strong enough to cause radio blackouts on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sun-unleashes-powerful-solar-flare-strong-enough-to-cause-radio-blackouts-on-earth3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sun emitted a solar flare this week that was strong enough to cause radio blackouts on Earth \u2014 and it reportedly did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/solarcycle25\/2023\/07\/03\/sun-releases-strong-solar-flare-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which showed a bright flash in the top right area of the sun. The flare was classified as a X1.0 flare, which means it is in the most intense class of flares, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The flare peaked at 7:14 p.m. Eastern Time on July 2, NASA said. It erupted from a sunspot that is seven times the width of Earth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/sun-solar-flare-radio-blackouts-earth-july-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/a>, a website that chronicles news and events in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun emitted a solar flare this week that was strong enough to cause radio blackouts on Earth \u2014 and it reportedly did. NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which showed a bright flash in the top right area of the sun. The flare was classified as a X1.0 flare, which [\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-166916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166916","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=166916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}