{"id":2609,"date":"2025-06-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:47:12","slug":"the-suns-poles-have-flipped-a-spacecraft-is-watching-what-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/the-suns-poles-have-flipped-a-spacecraft-is-watching-what-happens-next\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun&#039;s poles have flipped. A spacecraft is watching what happens next."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-suns-poles-have-flipped-a-spacecraft-is-watching-what-ha_vksg.640.jpg\">The Solar Orbiter has taken the first image of the sun&#x27;s south pole region.<\/p>\n<p>A spacecraft just got the first look at the bottom of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/35248\/how-hot-is-the-sun-its-a-tricky-question-even-for-scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sun<\/a><\/u>, and what it saw was a hot mess \u2014 literally. <\/p>\n<p>Our host star, about 93 million miles away in <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space<\/a><\/u>, is in utter turmoil right now, having just reached peak chaos in its \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Orbiter has taken the first image of the sun&#x27;s south pole region. A spacecraft just got the first look at the bottom of the sun, and what it saw was a hot mess \u2014 literally. Our host star, about 93 million miles away in space, is in utter turmoil right now, having just reached peak chaos in its \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}