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Having a blast? Scientists capture Sun’s failed solar eruption
Researchers tracked the Sun’s eruption across multiple wavelengths and found magnetic fields forced it to stall and collapse back.
- In March 2024, scientists captured a detailed view of a powerful solar eruption from the Sun that stalled and collapsed rather than breaking free, providing a rare look at why some flares fail to launch.
- Scientists tracked the event across multiple wavelengths using spacecraft from NASA and the European Space Agency alongside ground-based telescopes to monitor the plume of dense gas.
- Magnetic field lines reconnected in different regions simultaneously, while strong overlying magnetic fields acted like a cage to confine the blast, and lower reconnection pushed the eruption upward before another process above weakened the driving forces.
- "That upper reconnection weakened the forces that were driving the eruption, which helped to shut it down," said Katharine Reeves, astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, halting the event shortly after its initiation.
- Tingyu Gou, an astronomer at the SAO, noted that watching this failed eruption helps scientists understand physical mechanisms behind successful blasts and space weather environments of distant stars and planets throughout the galaxy.
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How a powerful blast left the Sun and then mysteriously fell back
Astronomers tracked a powerful solar eruption that rose like a coronal mass ejection before collapsing back onto the Sun. The observations show how magnetic reconnection and strong surrounding fields can halt such blasts and may explain hidden stellar eruptions.
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