{"id":177632,"date":"2023-12-07T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unprecedented-gigantic-hole-in-the-sun-spews-superfast-solar-wind-towards-earth"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:29:51","slug":"unprecedented-gigantic-hole-in-the-sun-spews-superfast-solar-wind-towards-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unprecedented-gigantic-hole-in-the-sun-spews-superfast-solar-wind-towards-earth","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Gigantic \u2018Hole\u2019 in the Sun Spews Superfast Solar Wind Towards Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unprecedented-gigantic-hole-in-the-sun-spews-superfast-solar-wind-towards-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Takeaways:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A massive coronal hole, wider than 60 Earths, has opened up on the sun\u2019s surface, releasing unusually fast solar wind towards Earth. This phenomenon is unprecedented at this stage of the solar cycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The hole, which took shape near the sun\u2019s equator on Dec. 2, reached its maximum width of around 497,000 miles within 24 hours. Since Dec. 4, it has been pointing directly at Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takeaways: \u2022 A massive coronal hole, wider than 60 Earths, has opened up on the sun\u2019s surface, releasing unusually fast solar wind towards Earth. This phenomenon is unprecedented at this stage of the solar cycle. \u2022 The hole, which took shape near the sun\u2019s equator on Dec. 2, reached its maximum width of around 497,000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177632","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}