{"id":170,"date":"2017-11-07T03:51:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T03:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2017-12-04T06:08:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:08:54","slug":"the-sun-has-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/the-sun-has-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Has Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdyson.com\/\">Marianne Dyson<\/a><strong>, November 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the sun rotates on its axis about once a month? Since all sides of the sun look essentially the same, how can scientists tell how fast it goes around? The sun has spots! These spots act as markers for what part of the sun is facing Earth. By tracking their motion, scientists can clock the rate of motion of the surface.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-171 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-eclipseDysonSunSpotsAfterMax-1024x963.jpg\" alt=\"Sunspots seen during eclipse August 21, 2017.\" width=\"840\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-eclipseDysonSunSpotsAfterMax-1024x963.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-eclipseDysonSunSpotsAfterMax-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-eclipseDysonSunSpotsAfterMax-768x722.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-eclipseDysonSunSpotsAfterMax-1200x1129.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-eclipseDysonSunSpotsAfterMax.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/> A group of sunspots appear near the center of the Sun in this photo taken during the eclipse on August 21. These spots first appeared on the edge of the Sun on August 14. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne Dyson, November 2017 Did you know that the sun rotates on its axis about once a month? Since all sides of the sun look essentially the same, how can scientists tell how fast it goes around? The sun has spots! These spots act as markers for what part of the sun is facing Earth. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/the-sun-has-spots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sun Has Spots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-science-snacks","category-science-snacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariannedyson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}