{"id":99895,"date":"2019-12-18T06:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/nasa-just-observed-a-totally-new-kind-of-magnetic-eruption-on-the-sun"},"modified":"2019-12-18T06:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:42:58","slug":"nasa-just-observed-a-totally-new-kind-of-magnetic-eruption-on-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/nasa-just-observed-a-totally-new-kind-of-magnetic-eruption-on-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"NASA Just Observed a Totally New Kind of Magnetic Eruption on The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dGAHJXLIbKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The surface of the Sun is never still. Upon this burning ball of gas, a continual flow of super-hot plasma creates ropes of magnetic fields that can twist and tangle with one another.<\/p>\n<p>As the star rotates, these invisible lines <a href=\"https:\/\/scied.ucar.edu\/magnetic-field-lines-tangle-sun-rotates\">snap apart and join together again<\/a>, bursting into flares, storms and eruptions of plasma.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon, known as magnetic reconnection, has been seen many times before on the Sun and even around our own planet, but we\u2019ve only captured spontaneous reconnections in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surface of the Sun is never still. Upon this burning ball of gas, a continual flow of super-hot plasma creates ropes of magnetic fields that can twist and tangle with one another. As the star rotates, these invisible lines snap apart and join together again, bursting into flares, storms and eruptions of plasma. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99895","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}