{"id":39145,"date":"2023-08-25T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39145"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:01:59","slug":"the-invisible-can-affect-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/08\/25\/the-invisible-can-affect-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Can Affect Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is sort of like <em>The non-existent can affect us all<\/em>. But even out on &#8230; Neptune?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0019103523002440?via%3Dihub\">new paper<\/a>\u00a0in the research journal\u00a0<em>Icarus<\/em> offers dramatic proof that solar activity can affect planetary weather. The big surprise: The planet is Neptune, 2.5 billion miles from the sun. Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope over a period of 28 years show bright clouds forming in sync with the 11-year solar cycle: [omitted]<\/p>\n<p>The connection between Neptune and solar activity is surprising to planetary scientists because Neptune is our solar system&#8217;s farthest major planet. It receives only 0.1% of the sunlight we get on Earth. Yet Neptune&#8217;s cloudy weather seems to be driven by solar activity, and not the planet&#8217;s four seasons, which each last approximately 40 years.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=24&amp;month=08&amp;year=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just imagine a supernova in the local neighborhood &#8211; we&#8217;d get a dose of radiation <em>and<\/em> a couple of hurricanes just as an insult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is sort of like The non-existent can affect us all. But even out on &#8230; Neptune? A\u00a0new paper\u00a0in the research journal\u00a0Icarus offers dramatic proof that solar activity can affect planetary weather. The big surprise: The planet is Neptune, 2.5 billion miles from the sun. Images taken by the Hubble \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/08\/25\/the-invisible-can-affect-us-all\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39146,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145\/revisions\/39146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}