{"id":182385,"date":"2024-02-09T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/gigantic-object-on-surface-of-sun-turns-to-face-the-earth"},"modified":"2024-02-09T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T19:23:33","slug":"gigantic-object-on-surface-of-sun-turns-to-face-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/gigantic-object-on-surface-of-sun-turns-to-face-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"Gigantic Object on Surface of Sun Turns to Face the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gigantic-object-on-surface-of-sun-turns-to-face-the-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last fall, NASA\u2019s Mars rover spotted a massive spot on the surface of the Sun \u2014 and now, that ginormous maw is looking directly at the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>First <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=02&year=2024\" class=\"\">reported by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/SpaceWeather.com\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a><\/em><\/a>, the sunspot is expected to blast a coronal mass ejection (CME) out towards Earth and will be \u201cnot just a near miss, but an actual glancing blow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CMEs occur when storms on the surface of the Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/plasma-earth-aurora\" class=\"\">blast plasma out into the solar system<\/a>, leaving planets in its path \u2014 including our own Earth \u2014 to handle the geomagnetic consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, NASA\u2019s Mars rover spotted a massive spot on the surface of the Sun \u2014 and now, that ginormous maw is looking directly at the Earth. First reported by SpaceWeather.com, the sunspot is expected to blast a coronal mass ejection (CME) out towards Earth and will be \u201cnot just a near miss, but an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182385","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}