{"id":3278,"date":"2010-02-02T15:35:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/solar-smoke-rings\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:55:54","slug":"solar-smoke-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/solar-smoke-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar &#8220;Smoke Rings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/plasma-rings.gif' title='plasma-rings.gif'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/plasma-rings.gif' alt='plasma-rings.gif' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a><strong>EXPLOSION ON THE SUN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coronagraphs onboard the <a href=\"http:\/\/sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov\/\">Solar and Heliospheric Observatory<\/a> (SOHO) observed a bright double-ringed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coronal_mass_ejection\">coronal mass ejection<\/a> (CME) billowing over the sun&#8217;s western limb during the late hours of Feb. 1st. At present, the source of the blast is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The bright spot to the left of the sun is Venus. Click on the image for a slightly larger view.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/archive.php?PHPSESSID=at2hs7kqcs7eu5314bpf685an1&#038;month=02&#038;day=02&#038;year=2010&#038;view=view\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXPLOSION ON THE SUN Coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) observed a bright double-ringed coronal mass ejection (CME) billowing over the sun&#8217;s western limb&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-rocket-science","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}