{"id":204493,"date":"2025-01-24T23:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T05:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/warning-lights-flickering-loops-appear-on-the-sun-before-it-erupts"},"modified":"2025-01-24T23:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T05:36:43","slug":"warning-lights-flickering-loops-appear-on-the-sun-before-it-erupts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/warning-lights-flickering-loops-appear-on-the-sun-before-it-erupts","title":{"rendered":"Warning lights: Flickering \u201cloops\u201d appear on the Sun before it erupts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warning-lights-flickering-loops-appear-on-the-sun-before-it-erupts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An automated system could potentially monitor real-time images of coronal loop brightness shifts from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, thus enabling scientists to issue timely alerts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could build on this and come up with a well-tested and, ideally, simpler indicator ready for the leap from research to operations,\u201d said Vadim Uritsky, an expert in space physics at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GSFC<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Catholic University<\/a> in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of flickering coronal loops as a precursor to solar flares opens up transformative possibilities in both research and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An automated system could potentially monitor real-time images of coronal loop brightness shifts from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, thus enabling scientists to issue timely alerts. \u201cWe could build on this and come up with a well-tested and, ideally, simpler indicator ready for the leap from research to operations,\u201d said Vadim Uritsky, an expert in space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204493","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}