{"id":4349,"date":"2016-07-31T16:21:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2016-07-31T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:21:17","slug":"mysteries-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/31\/mysteries-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=31&amp;month=07&amp;year=2016\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> on the misnamed <em>proton arcs<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aurora photographers see these structures from time to time&#8211;tight ribbons of light, sometimes red, sometimes green, writhing across the night sky.\u00a0 They are commonly called &#8220;proton arcs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet aurora scientists say they probably have nothing to do with protons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My opinion, and I believe the consensus of most aurora scientists, is that these arcs are not proton related, &#8221; says Jason Ahrns, a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, &#8220;but I don&#8217;t know what does cause them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <em><strong>Spaceweather.com&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> gallery:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/0e33611cb8e6da737d5c-e13b5a910e105e07f9070866adaae10b.r15.cf1.rackcdn.com\/Sherri-Grant-image_1439829413_lg.jpg?w=800\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=116470\" target=\"_blank\">Taken by Sherri Grant on August 17, 2015 @ Just north east of Val Marie, Saskatchewan, Canada<\/a><br \/>\n\ufffc<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceweather.com reports on the misnamed proton arcs: Aurora photographers see these structures from time to time&#8211;tight ribbons of light, sometimes red, sometimes green, writhing across the night sky.\u00a0 They are commonly called &#8220;proton arcs.&#8221; Yet aurora scientists say they probably have nothing to do with protons. &#8220;My opinion, and I \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/31\/mysteries-in-the-sky\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-4349","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\/4349","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=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4350,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}