{"id":155654,"date":"2023-01-17T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chinese-researchers-employ-powerful-lasers-to-recreate-solar-flares"},"modified":"2023-01-17T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:26:18","slug":"chinese-researchers-employ-powerful-lasers-to-recreate-solar-flares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chinese-researchers-employ-powerful-lasers-to-recreate-solar-flares","title":{"rendered":"Chinese researchers employ powerful lasers to recreate solar flares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-researchers-employ-powerful-lasers-to-recreate-solar-flares2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team recreated a turbulent magnetic reconnection, suggested to be a trigger of solar flares.<\/p>\n<p>On January 10, NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a massive X-class solar flare. The blast hurled debris into space, and radiation from the flare triggered radio blackouts across the South Pacific. The solar outburst was the third X-class \u2014 the most powerful \u2014 flare in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>These intense bursts of radiation from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots can be dangerous \u2014 in February 2022, SpaceX lost 40 of its newly launched Starlink communications satellites due to a geomagnetic storm triggered by a solar flare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team recreated a turbulent magnetic reconnection, suggested to be a trigger of solar flares. On January 10, NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a massive X-class solar flare. The blast hurled debris into space, and radiation from the flare triggered radio blackouts across the South Pacific. The solar outburst was the third X-class \u2014 the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}