{"id":237881,"date":"2026-05-28T03:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/rare-observations-reveal-an-x9-solar-flare-before-it-erupts"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:49:02","slug":"rare-observations-reveal-an-x9-solar-flare-before-it-erupts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/rare-observations-reveal-an-x9-solar-flare-before-it-erupts","title":{"rendered":"Rare observations reveal an X9 solar flare before it erupts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-observations-reveal-an-x9-solar-flare-before-it-erupts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation from the sun\u2019s surface, which can wreak havoc on Earth\u2019s power grids, damage orbiting satellites, and pose serious radiation risks to astronauts. Yet despite decades of study, the processes that trigger these eruptions remain poorly understood.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2605.07889v1\" target=\"_blank\">preprint on <i>arXiv<\/i><\/a>, a team led by Louis Seyfritz at the New Jersey Institute of Technology has captured rare observations of a large flare in the hours before it erupted, offering new clues about what sets these events in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation from the sun\u2019s surface, which can wreak havoc on Earth\u2019s power grids, damage orbiting satellites, and pose serious radiation risks to astronauts. Yet despite decades of study, the processes that trigger these eruptions remain poorly understood. In a new preprint on arXiv, a team led by Louis Seyfritz [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237881","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}