{"id":7829,"date":"2011-06-07T17:10:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T22:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2023-12-15T08:56:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:56:58","slug":"this-is-an-explosion-on-the-sun-bigger-than-the-earth-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/06\/this-is-an-explosion-on-the-sun-bigger-than-the-earth-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is An Explosion On The Sun Bigger Than The Earth Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HUGE explosion on the Sun on June 7, 2011\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hyi4hjG6kDM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the sun. It exploded today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch this video. Then watch it again. Then remember that the sun has a diameter around 109 times that of the Earth. Then watch it again. Then remember that the sun&#8217;s surface area is almost 12,000 times that of the earth. Then watch it again. Then watch <a title=\"AIA 171 (2011-06-07 05:30:00 - 2011-06-07 08:29:48 UTC)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=LpkXhlPIINQ\">this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the kind of thing that should leave mortal men in awe. I&#8217;m not even going to try to write anymore. It&#8217;d just be useless blather that a giant universe that can take literal earth-shattering explosions like this in stride wouldn&#8217;t care one iota about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hug your loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/&quot;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hyi4hjG6kDM\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LpkXhlPIINQ\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sun. It exploded today. Watch this video. Then watch it again. Then remember that the sun has a diameter around 109 times that of the Earth. Then watch it again. Then remember that the sun&#8217;s surface area is almost 12,000 times that of the earth. Then watch it again. Then watch this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":7834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[1262,1485,1487,1486,196,1484],"class_list":["post-7829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-etc","tag-earth","tag-explosions","tag-humility","tag-mankind","tag-space","tag-the-sun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/05.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelghY-22h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21198,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions\/21198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}