{"id":182746,"date":"2024-02-15T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-hottest-catalog-of-the-year-comprehensive-list-of-slow-building-solar-flares"},"modified":"2024-02-15T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:22:24","slug":"the-hottest-catalog-of-the-year-comprehensive-list-of-slow-building-solar-flares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-hottest-catalog-of-the-year-comprehensive-list-of-slow-building-solar-flares","title":{"rendered":"The Hottest Catalog of the Year: Comprehensive List of Slow-building Solar Flares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-hottest-catalog-of-the-year-comprehensive-list-of-slow-building-solar-flares2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although solar flares have been classified based on the amount of energy they emit at their peak, there has not been significant study into differentiating flares since slow-building flares were first discovered in the 1980s. Scientists have now shown that there is a significant amount of slower-type flares worthy of further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Solar flares occur when magnetic energy builds up in the Sun\u2019s atmosphere and is released as electromagnetic radiation. Lasting anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, flares usually reach temperatures around 10 million degrees Kelvin. Because of their intense electromagnetic energy, solar flares can cause disruptions in radio communications, Earth-orbiting satellites and even result in blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>The width-to-decay ratio of a flare is the time it takes to reach maximum intensity to the time it takes to dissipate its energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although solar flares have been classified based on the amount of energy they emit at their peak, there has not been significant study into differentiating flares since slow-building flares were first discovered in the 1980s. Scientists have now shown that there is a significant amount of slower-type flares worthy of further investigation. Solar flares occur [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182746","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}