{"id":8128,"date":"2014-06-17T18:10:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T22:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2014-06-17T18:10:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T22:10:47","slug":"solar-cycle-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8128","title":{"rendered":"Solar cycle update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindtheblack.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Zimmerman<\/a>\u00a0describes the what happend last month in the solar cycle&#8217;s ups and downs: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/essays-and-commentaries\/is-the-suns-strange-double-peaked-solar-maximum-finally-ending\" target=\"_d\">Is the Sun\u2019s strange double-peaked solar maximum finally ending?\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Behind The Black<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/SolarCycle\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/SolarCycle\/sunspot.gif\" alt=\"ISES Solar Cycle Sunspot Number Progression - NOAA\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find lots more real and near real time \u00a0imagery and data from space on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?page_id=1759\" target=\"_d\">HobbySpace Sun &amp; Space Weather page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Zimmerman\u00a0describes the what happend last month in the solar cycle&#8217;s ups and downs: \u00a0Is the Sun\u2019s strange double-peaked solar maximum finally ending?\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Behind The Black &nbsp; Find lots more real and near real time \u00a0imagery and data from space on the\u00a0HobbySpace Sun &amp; Space Weather page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[93,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-time-space","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-276","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11478,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11478","url_meta":{"origin":8128,"position":0},"title":"Xtronaut: the game of solar system exploration","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Dante Lauretta \u00a0is a professor at the University of Arizona\u00a0and\u00a0the Principal Investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission to return a sample of an asteroid back to earth. 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