{"id":2404,"date":"2021-09-09T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:44:29","slug":"big-sunspots-turn-toward-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/big-sunspots-turn-toward-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Big sunspots turn toward Earth&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the biggest sunspots in years are turning toward Earth. Wide enough to swallow planets, the active regions are entering Earth&#8217;s &#8216;strike-zone&#8217;, meaning any flares or CMEs this week would probably be Earth-directed.<\/p>\n<p>Even if they don&#8217;t explode, the sunspots are prime targets for amateur astronomers and sunset photographers.<\/p>\n<p>Find out how to safely observe them @\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=693a631a01&amp;e=f98eeb7cd6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spaceweather.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the biggest sunspots in years are turning toward Earth. Wide enough to swallow planets, the active regions are entering Earth&#8217;s &#8216;strike-zone&#8217;, meaning any flares or CMEs this week would probably be Earth-directed. Even if they don&#8217;t explode, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/big-sunspots-turn-toward-earth\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}