Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates - NASA Science

Unusual Solar Flare Rates Discovered by NASA Volunteers

A recent study has shed light on the long-lived active regions on the Sun’s surface that exhibit strong magnetic fields. These magnetic fields can emerge rapidly and decay over varying periods of time, from hours to months. The findings of this study, detailed in a new research article, provide valuable insights into the behavior of […]

Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates - NASA Science

2 min read Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we now know much more about the patches where these strong magnetic fields take at least a month to decay. This study relied on inputs from N…