{"id":10825,"date":"2020-07-16T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10825"},"modified":"2020-07-17T12:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T19:32:15","slug":"campfires-on-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/16\/campfires-on-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Campfires On The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/closest-images-sun-space-science-121548219.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Yahoo! News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Closest pictures of sun ever taken reveal mysterious &#8216;campfires&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/author\/connor-parker-74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Connor Parker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/qhcg.5cwxsR8Ku29ldZggA--~A\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTk2MA--\/https:\/\/media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-07\/53f47920-c760-11ea-9bbb-e1b076bf3682\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>One of the closest images ever taken of the sun. (BEIS via PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The closest-ever images taken of the sun have revealed mini solar flares called \u201ccampfires\u201d dotted across its surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The images were captured last month by the Solar Orbiter, a European Space Agency (ESA) probe designed and built in the UK. Scientists say the pictures could shed light on the mysterious process that means the outer layer of the star is so much hotter than the layers below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/tagged\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spacecraft<\/a>\u00a0came within 47 million miles of the sun\u2019s surface and passed between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Berghmans from the Royal Observatory of Belgium said: \u201cWhen the first images came the first thought was this is not possible, they cannot be that good, it was really much better than what we dared to hope for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/closest-images-sun-space-science-121548219.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Yahoo!<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Yahoo! News Closest pictures of sun ever taken reveal mysterious &#8216;campfires&#8217; by Connor Parker The closest-ever images taken of the sun have revealed mini solar flares called \u201ccampfires\u201d dotted across its surface. The images were captured last month by the Solar Orbiter, a European Space Agency (ESA) probe designed and built in the UK. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}