{"id":33802,"date":"2026-01-08T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33802"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:46:04","slug":"do-planetary-alignments-affect-solar-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33802","title":{"rendered":"DO PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS AFFECT SOLAR ACTIVITY?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>DO PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS AFFECT SOLAR ACTIVITY?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a planetary alignment this week. Could it affect solar activity? One researcher says &#8220;yes,&#8221; and explains how on today&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=25fb7935cd&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">Spaceweather.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/plantary-alignment.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/plantary-alignment-300x174.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/plantary-alignment-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/plantary-alignment.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Above:<\/strong>\u00a0Jupiter, Earth, Venus and Mars are arrayed in an approximate line this week, exerting their &#8220;spring tides&#8221; on the sun. Can these feeble tides affect solar activity?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DO PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS AFFECT SOLAR ACTIVITY?\u00a0 There&#8217;s a planetary alignment this week. Could it affect solar activity? One researcher says &#8220;yes,&#8221; and explains how on today&#8217;s edition of Spaceweather.com. Above:\u00a0Jupiter, Earth, Venus and Mars are arrayed in an approximate line this week, exerting their &#8220;spring tides&#8221; on the sun. Can these feeble tides affect solar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DO PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS AFFECT SOLAR ACTIVITY?\u00a0<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[133],"tags":[1790,276],"class_list":["post-33802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news","tag-planetary-alignment","tag-sun"],"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\/33802","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=33802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33804,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802\/revisions\/33804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}