{"id":172,"date":"2009-04-25T23:07:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T22:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=172"},"modified":"2009-04-25T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T22:07:33","slug":"sun-dimmest-for-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Sun dimmest for a century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/quietsun.jpg\" alt=\"Sun dimmest for a century\" title=\"quietsun\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/quietsun.jpg 500w, https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/quietsun-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered that our nearest star, the Sun, is at its dimmest for a century.<br \/>\nInteresting fact for Standard Grade Physics: Light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach our planet.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/8009185.stm\">BBC News report.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/helios.gsfc.nasa.gov\/sspot.html\">More on sunspots<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered that our nearest star, the Sun, is at its dimmest for a century. Interesting fact for Standard Grade Physics: Light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach our planet. BBC News report. More on sunspots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}