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Scientists captured a failed solar eruption, a powerful blast from the Sun that never broke free. (ESA via SWNS)<\/p>\n
By Dean Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n Space scientists have captured the Sun<\/a> failing to have a blast.<\/p>\n A team of researchers recorded one of the most detailed views ever of a failed solar eruption, a powerful blast from the Sun that never broke free.<\/p>\n In March 2024, an intense solar flare<\/a> sent a plume of dense gas rising from the Sun\u2019s surface, but the eruption slowed, stalled and collapsed back.<\/p>\n \u201cThis strong flare should have produced a big eruption,\u201d said lead author Tingyu Gou, astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory<\/a> (SAO), part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. \u201cInstead, we saw that the eruption stalled and collapsed shortly after its initiation.\u201d<\/p>\n Using spacecraft from NASA and the European Space Agency<\/a> alongside ground-based telescopes, scientists tracked the event across multiple wavelengths.<\/p>\n They found that magnetic field lines were reconnecting in different regions at once. While lower reconnection pushed the eruption upwards, a second process above weakened it.<\/p>\n