Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates0

• Citizen Science, Heliophysics Division, SCIENCE, Solar Flares
• March 14, 2026

Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we now know much more about the patches where these strong magnetic fields