{"id":22351,"date":"2018-10-10T04:56:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T04:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22351"},"modified":"2018-10-10T04:56:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T04:56:27","slug":"sun-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22351","title":{"rendered":"Sun Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/hQFEHH5E69s\/maxresdefault.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Sometimes, the surface of our Sun seems to dance. In the middle of 2012, for example, NASA&#8217;s Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressive prominence that seemed to perform a running dive roll like an acrobatic dancer. The dramatic explosion was captured in ultraviolet light in the featured time-lapse video covering about three hours. A looping magnetic field directed the flow of hot plasma on the Sun. The scale of the dancing prominence is huge &#8212; the entire Earth would easily fit under the flowing arch of hot gas. A quiescent prominence typically lasts about a month, and may erupt in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) expelling hot gas into the Solar System. The energy mechanism that creates a solar prominence is still a topic of research. Unlike 2012, this year the Sun&#8217;s surface is significantly more serene, featuring fewer spinning prominences, as it is near the minimum in its 11-year magnetic cycle. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap181010.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the surface of our Sun seems to dance. In the middle of 2012, for example, NASA&#8217;s Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressive prominence that seemed to perform <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22351\" 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-22351","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\/22351","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=22351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22352,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22351\/revisions\/22352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}