{"id":4051,"date":"2011-01-20T16:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T23:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/blobs-of-plasma-fall-on-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:56:41","slug":"blobs-of-plasma-fall-on-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/blobs-of-plasma-fall-on-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Blobs of Plasma Fall on the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have seen many coronal mass ejections from the sun in the past but this is the first video I have seen (that I can remember) where blobs of plasma seem to rain from a prominence. An amateur astronomer captured this video in Ocean Beach, CA.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of amateurs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/archive.php?day=20&#038;month=01&#038;year=2011&#038;view=view&#038;PHPSESSID=qe0b3a3p0vuk32vla329dmcqc1\">NASA is soliciting reports<\/a> from <strong>amateur radio operators<\/strong> to listen for NanoSail-D&#8217;s beacon signal at 437.270 MHz to verify that NanoSail-D is operating. <\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/plasmarain.php\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Video via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&#038;day=19&#038;month=01&#038;year=2011\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a> (repackaged in Flash&reg;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have seen many coronal mass ejections from the sun in the past but this is the first video I have seen (that I can remember)&#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":[32,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","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=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}