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Catch solar bursts in new citizen science project

Written by  Tuesday, 11 March 2025 12:00
Solar flare seen by Solar Orbiter

Help us uncover the secrets of the Sun! Our Solar Orbiter spacecraft has been watching the Sun since February 2020. With five years’ worth of data waiting to be explored, it’s time to dig in. The new ‘Solar Radio Burst Tracker’ Zooniverse project is ready for you.

Solar Orbiter spots a radio burst from the Sun
Solar Orbiter spots a radio burst from the Sun

With the new catalogue of Type III radio burst data, Katerina will be able to explore in detail how radio burst activity varies during the solar cycle – something that was not previously possible.

Solar Orbiter is perfect for this research; the RPW instrument can detect even very weak radio waves, covers a wide range of radio frequencies, and will – for the first time ever – measure radio waves from close to the Sun’s poles.

Help Katerina out by diving in here and track Type III solar radio bursts like nobody has done before.

Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA, operated by ESA.


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