{"id":195321,"date":"2024-08-28T02:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-sun-is-more-active-than-scientists-anticipated-heres-what-it-means-for-us"},"modified":"2024-08-28T02:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:24:35","slug":"the-sun-is-more-active-than-scientists-anticipated-heres-what-it-means-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-sun-is-more-active-than-scientists-anticipated-heres-what-it-means-for-us","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Is More Active Than Scientists Anticipated. Here\u2019s What It Means For Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-sun-is-more-active-than-scientists-anticipated-heres-what-it-means-for-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From afar, the Sun looks calm and peaceful in our daytime skies. But up close, it\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/Sun-images-reveal-creepy-threads-holes-light-bridge-solar-surface-2023-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">erupting, chaotic display<\/a> of solar activity the likes of which astrophysicists didn\u2019t expect until the last year or so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t think the Sun was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/Sun-more-active-solar-storms-auroras-power-outages-grounded-flights-2023-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going to be as active<\/a> this particular cycle, but the observations are completely opposite,\u201d Andrew Gerrard, the department chair and director of the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research at New Jersey Institute of Technology, told Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/solar-storms-timelapse-video-Sun-chaotic-peak-activity-noaa-2023-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar cycles<\/a> typically occur every 11 years. Within that time, the Sun oscillates from minimum to maximum solar activity, with maximum activity peaking in the middle of the cycle when the Sun\u2019s magnetic fields flip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From afar, the Sun looks calm and peaceful in our daytime skies. But up close, it\u2019s an erupting, chaotic display of solar activity the likes of which astrophysicists didn\u2019t expect until the last year or so. \u201cWe didn\u2019t think the Sun was going to be as active this particular cycle, but the observations are completely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195321","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}