{"id":25931,"date":"2024-05-12T05:56:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T05:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25931"},"modified":"2024-05-12T05:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T05:56:38","slug":"25931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25931","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2405\/AuroraPoland_Durlej_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div> Northern lights don&#8217;t usually reach this far south. Magnetic chaos in the Sun&#8217;s huge Active Region 3664, however, produced a surface explosion that sent a burst of electrons, protons, and more massive, charged nuclei into the Solar System. A few days later, that coronal mass ejection (CME) impacted the Earth and triggered auroras that are being reported unusually far from our planet&#8217;s north and south poles. The free sky show might not be over &#8212; the sunspot rich AR3664 has ejected even more CMEs that might also impact the Earth tonight or tomorrow. That active region is now near the Sun&#8217;s edge, though, and will soon be rotating away from the Earth. Pictured, a red and rayed aurora was captured in a single 6-second exposure from Racib\u00c3\u00b3rz, Poland early last night. The photographer&#8217;s friend, seeing an aurora for the first time, is visible in the distance also taking images of the beautifully colorful nighttime sky. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap240512.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern lights don&#8217;t usually reach this far south. Magnetic chaos in the Sun&#8217;s huge Active Region 3664, however, produced a surface explosion that sent a burst of electrons, protons, and <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25931\" 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-25931","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\/25931","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=25931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25932,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931\/revisions\/25932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}