{"id":25373,"date":"2023-02-22T05:56:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25373"},"modified":"2023-02-22T05:56:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:56:44","slug":"25373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25373","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2302\/SunHalphaC_Ergun_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Our Sun is becoming a busy place. Only two years ago, the Sun was emerging from a solar minimum so quiet that months would go by without even a single sunspot. In contrast, already this year and well ahead of schedule, our Sun is unusually active, already nearing solar activity levels seen a decade ago during the last solar maximum. Our increasingly active Sun was captured two weeks ago sporting numerous interesting features. The image was recorded in a single color of light called Hydrogen Alpha, color-inverted, and false colored. Spicules carpet much of the Sun&#8217;s face. The brightening towards the Sun&#8217;s edges is caused by increased absorption of relatively cool solar gas and called limb darkening. Just outside the Sun&#8217;s disk, several scintillating prominences protrude, while prominences on the Sun&#8217;s face are known as filaments and show as light streaks. Magnetically tangled active regions are both dark and light and contain cool sunspots. As our Sun&#8217;s magnetic field winds toward solar maximum over the next few years, whether the Sun&#8217;s high activity will continue to increase is unknown. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap230222.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Sun is becoming a busy place. Only two years ago, the Sun was emerging from a solar minimum so quiet that months would go by without even a single <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25373\" 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-25373","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\/25373","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=25373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25374,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25373\/revisions\/25374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}