{"id":34196,"date":"2026-07-08T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34196"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:59:36","slug":"potentially-dangerous-sunspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34196","title":{"rendered":"POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SUNSPOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Space Weather News for July 7, 2026<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/IrwSvVCkdyw?e=de6f94dc30&amp;c2id=b50d86a5c46b1d63a0ed24c2e6f20528\">Free Space Weather Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SUNSPOT:<\/strong>\u00a0A big new sunspot emerged during the 4th of July weekend, announcing itself with an X-class solar flare. Today, it topped that by hurling a million-kilometer loop of plasma into space. Earth is entering the strike zone of this active sunspot, bringing a chance of geoeffective solar activity later this week. Full story @\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/KxqQEKbVcm4?e=de6f94dc30&amp;c2id=b50d86a5c46b1d63a0ed24c2e6f20528\">Spaceweather.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you miss the 4th of July aurora outburst?<\/strong> Next time get a personalized real-time alert from our new <a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/Pe2i0xiJOh6?e=de6f94dc30&amp;c2id=b50d86a5c46b1d63a0ed24c2e6f20528\">Backyard Astronomy Alert Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-34197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sun-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sun-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sun.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Above:<\/strong>\u00a0An eruption from sunspot 4482 on July 7th. Image credits: GOES-19 and\u00a0Maximilian-Vlad Teodorescu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Weather News for July 7, 2026 Free Space Weather Newsletter A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SUNSPOT:\u00a0A big new sunspot emerged during the 4th of July weekend, announcing itself with an X-class solar flare. Today, it topped that by hurling a million-kilometer loop of plasma into space. Earth is entering the strike zone of this active sunspot, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SUNSPOT<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-34196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news"],"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\/34196","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=34196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34198,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196\/revisions\/34198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}