The Sun Just Did Something Nobody Expected and it Kept Going For 19 Days

Helmet streamers can be seen pointing radially outward away from the Sun in coronagraph images (Credit : NASA)

In August 2025, a NASA spacecraft detected a solar radio burst that refused to stop lasting 19 days, nearly four times longer than any previously recorded. A team of researchers used data from four spacecraft spread across the inner Solar System to track the event and pinpoint its source to a magnetic structure called a helmet streamer, likely supercharged by a series of powerful solar eruptions.

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