{"id":23849,"date":"2020-11-02T05:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23849"},"modified":"2020-11-02T05:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:50:35","slug":"half-sun-with-prominence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23849","title":{"rendered":"Half Sun with Prominence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2011\/HalfSunProm_Colacurcio_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What&#8217;s happening to the Sun? Clearly, the Sun&#8217;s lower half is hidden behind a thick cloud. Averaging over the entire Earth, clouds block the Sun about 2\/3rds of the time, although much less over many land locations. On the Sun&#8217;s upper right is a prominence of magnetically levitating hot gas. The prominence might seem small but it could easily envelop our Earth and persist for over a month. The featured image is a combination of two exposures, one optimizing the cloud and prominence, and the other optimizing the Sun&#8217;s texture. Both were taken about an hour apart with the same camera and from the same location in Lynnwood, Washington, USA. The shaggy texture derives from the Sun&#8217;s chromosphere, an atmospheric layer that stands out in the specifically exposed color. The uniformity of the texture shows the surface to be relatively calm, indicative of a Sun just past the solar minimum in its 11-year cycle. In the years ahead, the Sun will progress toward a more active epoch where sunspots, prominences, and ultimately auroras on Earth will be more common: solar maximum. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap201102.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening to the Sun? Clearly, the Sun&#8217;s lower half is hidden behind a thick cloud. Averaging over the entire Earth, clouds block the Sun about 2\/3rds of the time, <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23849\" 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-23849","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\/23849","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=23849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23850,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849\/revisions\/23850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}