{"id":963044,"date":"2026-05-16T04:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/963044\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:32:17","slug":"science-breakthrough-nasa-logs-record-breaking-solar-burst-as-scientists-forecast-dangerous-space-weather-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/963044\/","title":{"rendered":"Science breakthrough: NASA logs record-breaking solar burst as scientists forecast dangerous space weather events"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA has logged a record-breaking solar burst as scientists forecast dangerous space-weather events.<\/p>\n

The longest solar radio burst ever has been observed, lasting 19 days and shattering the previous record of just five days.<\/p>\n

Taking place between August 21 and September 9, 2025, the extraordinary came as a complete surprise to researchers.<\/p>\n

When scientists first detected the burst, it appeared entirely routine.<\/p>\n

However, unlike typical solar radio bursts, which last only a few hours to a few days, this one kept going.<\/p>\n

The burst is known as a Type IV burst, a specific category of solar radio emission that is itself completely harmless, reports IFL Science. <\/p>\n

Type IV bursts are produced by reservoirs of electrons trapped within the sun’s magnetic fields, which generate radio waves as the electrons move.<\/p>\n

The Sun is made of plasma, with electrons and protons constantly in motion, shaped by powerful magnetic fields in the outer layers of the star.<\/p>\n

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In this case, researchers believe three massive explosions from the Sun, known as coronal mass ejections, filled up the electron reservoir and kept the burst going for so long.<\/p>\n

Coronal mass ejections are enormous outbursts of plasma that can be damaging to technology on Earth.<\/p>\n

While the radio waves from a Type IV burst pose no direct threat, the same magnetic environments that produce them can also send dangerous particles hurtling toward Earth.<\/p>\n

Those particles can affect satellites, spacecraft and other technology that modern life depends upon.<\/p>\n

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The Solar Orbiter in 2020 – a spacecraft developed for a joint mission to study the sun by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA)<\/p>\n

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To study the event, researchers combined data from four separate spacecraft spread across the inner solar system.<\/p>\n

The missions involved were NASA’s STEREO, Parker Solar Probe and Wind, alongside the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA’s jointly operated Solar Orbiter.<\/p>\n

Each spacecraft observed the burst for a portion of its 19-day duration as the Sun’s rotation gradually brought the source into view.<\/p>\n

Scientists developed a brand new tracking technique using data from the STEREO spacecraft to identify exactly where the burst originated.<\/p>\n

They traced it back to a large magnetic structure in the Sun’s outer atmosphere called a helmet streamer.<\/p>\n

Helmet streamers are funnel-shaped features that become visible around the edges of the Sun during a solar eclipse, forming a distinctive V-shape.<\/p>\n

The findings have been published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n

Researchers say the study is already helping scientists better identify and track solar radio bursts.<\/p>\n

The work is also expected to improve space weather forecasting, giving scientists more tools to predict when dangerous solar activity could affect Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA has logged a record-breaking solar burst as scientists forecast dangerous space-weather events. The longest solar radio burst…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[12,70,413,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-963044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-space","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116582386732412136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}