{"id":946,"date":"2003-07-07T09:49:49","date_gmt":"2003-07-07T13:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/07\/picture-of-the-day-the-edge-of-the-sun"},"modified":"2003-07-07T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2003-07-07T13:49:49","slug":"picture-of-the-day-the-edge-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/07\/picture-of-the-day-the-edge-of-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture of the Day: the Edge of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a202'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"264\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap030707.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/sunedge.JPG\" width=\"260\" height=\"198\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"263\"> <b> Explanation: <\/b> Dramatic <a href=\"http:\/\/csep10.phys.utk.edu\/astr162\/lect\/sun\/prominences.html\">prominences<\/a> can sometimes be seen looming just beyond the edge of the sun.<br \/>\n      A <a href=\"http:\/\/solar.physics.montana.edu\/YPOP\/Program\/hfilament.html\">solar prominence<\/a> is a cloud of solar gas held just above the surface by the<br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/ssl\/pad\/solar\/the_key.htm\">Sun&#8217;s magnetic field<\/a>. The <a href=\"ap010204.html\">Earth<\/a> would easily<br \/>\n      fit below the <a href=\"ap030223.html\">prominence<\/a> on the left..  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photomeeting.de\/astromeeting\/_index.htm\">above image<\/a> in false color was taken on June 1 from Stuttgart, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/gm.html\">Germany<\/a> with an amateur telescope and camera. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap030707.html\">From NASA Site<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explanation: Dramatic prominences can sometimes be seen looming just beyond the edge of the sun. A solar prominence is a cloud of solar gas held just above the surface by the Sun&#8217;s magnetic field. The Earth would easily fit below &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/07\/picture-of-the-day-the-edge-of-the-sun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}