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The sun continues to ride on the mild side:\u00a0Ramping down from solar maximum – \u00a0Behind The Black<\/a>
\n\"ISES<\/p>\n

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Check the HobbySpace Sun & Space Weather page<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for your daily solar fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sun continues to ride on the mild side:\u00a0Ramping down from solar maximum – \u00a0Behind The Black === Check the HobbySpace Sun & Space Weather page\u00a0for your daily solar fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1gj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12900,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12900","url_meta":{"origin":4855,"position":0},"title":"The Sun flips in Solar Dynamics Observatory imagery","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a cool GIF animation of images of the sun\u00a0from the\u00a0Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): Sun-Watching SDO Does a Somersault On July 6, 2016, engineers instructed NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, to roll 360 degrees on one axis. 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