{"id":3926114,"date":"2026-05-24T08:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/solar-activity-follows-an-11-year-cycle-heres-how-it-controls-eruptions-and-solar-flares\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:07:53","slug":"solar-activity-follows-an-11-year-cycle-heres-how-it-controls-eruptions-and-solar-flares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/solar-activity-follows-an-11-year-cycle-heres-how-it-controls-eruptions-and-solar-flares\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar activity follows an 11\u2011year cycle. Here&#8217;s how it controls eruptions and solar flares"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the sun is a complex, dynamic celestial body, wrapped in electrical currents and magnetic fields that constantly move and tangle as it rotates. At times the sun&#8217;s surface is very active, casting out powerful bursts of plasma called coronal mass ejections, while at other times it is calmer.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-solar-11year-eruptions-flares.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the sun is a complex, dynamic celestial body, wrapped in electrical currents and magnetic fields that constantly move and tangle as it rotates. At times the sun&#8217;s surface is very active, [&#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-3926114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}