{"id":32408,"date":"2024-10-26T07:58:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T11:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=32408"},"modified":"2024-10-26T07:58:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T11:58:06","slug":"big-sunspots-and-an-x-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=32408","title":{"rendered":"BIG SUNSPOTS AND AN X-FLARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space Weather News for Oct. 24, 2024<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\">https:\/\/spaceweather.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com\">https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BIG SUNSPOTS AND AN X-FLARE: A big group of new sunspots exploded this morning, producing an X3.3-class solar flare and an impressive CME. The CME will graze Earth on Oct. 26th, possibly causing a geomagnetic storm. More flares are in the offing as the sunspot group turns toward Earth. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32409\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a0a18bac-3653-2286-16ec-c614953f833f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32409 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a0a18bac-3653-2286-16ec-c614953f833f-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a0a18bac-3653-2286-16ec-c614953f833f-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a0a18bac-3653-2286-16ec-c614953f833f.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A phalanx of active sunspots is turning toward Earth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Solar flare alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts to receive instant text messages when strong solar flares are underway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Weather News for Oct. 24, 2024 https:\/\/spaceweather.com https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com BIG SUNSPOTS AND AN X-FLARE: A big group of new sunspots exploded this morning, producing an X3.3-class solar flare and an impressive CME. The CME will graze Earth on Oct. 26th, possibly causing a geomagnetic storm. More flares are in the offing as the sunspot group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=32408\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BIG SUNSPOTS AND AN X-FLARE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[217,1766],"class_list":["post-32408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news","tag-auroras","tag-sun-spots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32410,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32408\/revisions\/32410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}