{"id":68782,"date":"2026-02-04T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=68782"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:05:37","slug":"goes-19-suvi-detects-a-brief-solar-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/68782","title":{"rendered":"GOES-19 SUVI detects a brief solar flare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 2992px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/02\/260204_goes19_suvi.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/02\/260204_1217utc_goes19_suvi_solar_flare.png\" width=\"2982\" height=\"1662\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-19 131 \u00c5 SUVI images, from 0705-1457 UTC on 04 February [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/suvi.html\"><strong>SUVI<\/strong><\/a> images from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/geo\/#\/animation?satellite=suvi-goes-19&amp;end_datetime=latest&amp;n_images=80&amp;coverage=sun&amp;channel=FE131\"><strong>SSEC Geostationary Satellite Imagery<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0site <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0displayed a brief but strong solar flare that occurred on 04 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A bulletin issued by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\"><strong>Space Weather Prediction Center<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> classified the X-class flare&#8217;s intensity as <strong>X4.2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/02\/260204_swpc.jpeg\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bulletin issued by the Space Weather Prediction Center on 04 February<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-19 (GOES-East) SUVI images from the SSEC Geostationary Satellite Imagery\u00a0site (above)\u00a0displayed a brief but strong solar flare that occurred on 04 February 2026. A bulletin issued by the Space Weather Prediction Center (below) classified the X-class flare&#8217;s intensity as X4.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":68783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,149,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-19","category-space-weather","category-suvi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68782"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68792,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68782\/revisions\/68792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}