{"id":3923719,"date":"2026-01-29T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-tree-rings-help-scientists-understand-disruptive-extreme-solar-storms\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:03:34","slug":"how-tree-rings-help-scientists-understand-disruptive-extreme-solar-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-tree-rings-help-scientists-understand-disruptive-extreme-solar-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"How tree rings help scientists understand disruptive extreme solar storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about ancient solar storms\u2014rare bursts of high-energy particles from the sun that can disrupt satellites, power grids, and communication systems across the planet. When these particles hit Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, they create a radioactive form of carbon that trees absorb and store in their wood.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-tree-scientists-disruptive-extreme-solar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about ancient solar storms\u2014rare bursts of high-energy particles from the sun that can disrupt satellites, power grids, and communication systems across the planet. When these particles hit Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, they create a radioactive form of carbon that trees absorb and store in their wood. <\/p>\n<p>Go to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}