{"id":889,"date":"2010-08-06T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2010-08-05T22:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T10:53:18","slug":"our-very-own-g2v-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/08\/06\/our-very-own-g2v-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Very Own G2V Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_890\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\"size-full wp-image-890 \" title=\"Sol\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sol.jpg 610w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sol-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar explosion<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our very own G2V star is the sun, or Sol, by the way.\u00a0 And as astronomers around the world are reporting, it&#8217;s getting kind of active with several large explosions of energy, called Coronal Mass Ejections, after a period of relative quiet. As <strong>Phil Plait<\/strong> says on his <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/\"><strong>Bad Astronomy<\/strong><\/a> blog,\u00a0 &#8220;NASA\u2019s recently-launched Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the action mid-eruption&#8221; and this photo is the result. Apparently there&#8217;s more Sol explode-y fun on the way over the next few years, as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find out more you can start <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/08\/04\/the-sun-rises-again\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> on <strong>Bad Astronomer<\/strong>, but there are also links to other astronomy sites blogging about the phenomenon, where you can also find good information. Myself, I&#8217;m just saying, &#8220;wow!&#8217; And maybe, &#8220;awesome!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our very own G2V star is the sun, or Sol, by the way.\u00a0 And as astronomers around the world are reporting, it&#8217;s getting kind of active with several large explosions of energy, called Coronal Mass Ejections, after a period of relative quiet. As Phil Plait says on his Bad Astronomy blog,\u00a0 &#8220;NASA\u2019s recently-launched Solar Dynamics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-space-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}