{"id":21499,"date":"2018-09-16T04:56:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T04:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=21499"},"modified":"2018-09-16T04:56:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T04:56:49","slug":"a-solar-filament-erupts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=21499","title":{"rendered":"A Solar Filament Erupts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1809\/filament_sdo_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What&#8217;s happened to our Sun? Nothing very unusual &#8212; it just threw a filament. Toward the middle of 2012, a long standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space producing an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The filament had been held up for days by the Sun&#8217;s ever changing magnetic field and the timing of the eruption was unexpected. Watched closely by the Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, the resulting explosion shot electrons and ions into the Solar System, some of which arrived at Earth three days later and impacted Earth&#8217;s magnetosphere, causing visible aurorae. Loops of plasma surrounding an active region can be seen above the erupting filament in the featured ultraviolet image. Although the Sun is now in a relatively inactive state of its 11-year cycle, unexpected holes have opened in the Sun&#8217;s corona allowing an excess of charged particles to stream into space. As before, these charged particles are creating auroras. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap180916.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happened to our Sun? Nothing very unusual &#8212; it just threw a filament. Toward the middle of 2012, a long standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space producing an <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=21499\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-21499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21500,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21499\/revisions\/21500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}