{"id":2213,"date":"2012-10-03T05:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2012-10-03T05:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:36:26","slug":"the-sun-burps-emits-a-long-filament-of-solar-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"The sun &#8216;burps&#8217;; emits a long filament of solar material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Earth, the sun looks remarkably consistent, continuously bathing our planet in light and heat without much change from year to year, let alone day to day. In reality, it&#8217;s anything but calm, as this incredible NASA photo of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) shows.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A CME is a huge burst of stellar material and magnetic fields from the surface of the sun \u2014 essentially what happens when the sun &#8220;burps&#8221;. They&#8217;re often associated with solar flares, but they can happen separately, too.<\/p>\n<p>This particular CME occurred on August 31 at 4.36pm Eastern Time. At its fastest, the burst shot out into space at more than 900 miles per second.<\/p>\n<p>Although this particular CME did not travel directly toward Earth (God help us if it did \u2014 a CME can be very destructive to things in orbit, such as planets around the sun, it did affect Earth&#8217;s magnetosphere, creating an aurora that was visible at the time it occurred. (This post was originally published on Mashable.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Earth, the sun looks remarkably consistent, continuously bathing our planet in light and heat without much change from year to year, let alone day to day. In reality, it&#8217;s anything but calm, as this incredible NASA photo of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}