{"id":197215,"date":"2024-10-08T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/earth-in-solar-flare-crosshairs-after-auroras-lit-up-u-s-skies"},"modified":"2024-10-08T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:23:32","slug":"earth-in-solar-flare-crosshairs-after-auroras-lit-up-u-s-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/earth-in-solar-flare-crosshairs-after-auroras-lit-up-u-s-skies","title":{"rendered":"Earth in solar flare \u201ccrosshairs\u201d after auroras lit up U.S. skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-in-solar-flare-crosshairs-after-auroras-lit-up-u-s-skies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our planet might be hit by another massive solar flare Monday, following multiple northern lights sightings across the U.S. on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>There is a 30 percent chance of an X-class solar flare hitting us on October 7, and a 75 percent chance of an M-class flare being seen, due to the Earth being in the \u201ccrosshairs\u201d of six volatile sunspots on the sun\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as 14 U.S. states caught a glimpse of the northern lights on Sunday night, thanks to a G1 to G2-strength geomagnetic storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our planet might be hit by another massive solar flare Monday, following multiple northern lights sightings across the U.S. on Sunday night. There is a 30 percent chance of an X-class solar flare hitting us on October 7, and a 75 percent chance of an M-class flare being seen, due to the Earth being in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197215","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}