NASA and IBM Built an AI to Predict Solar Flares Before They Hit Earth

NASA and IBM built an AI to predict solar flares before they hit Earth

An AI model trained on years of data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory can predict the sun’s future appearance and potentially flag dangerous solar flares

IBM and NASA made an open-source AI model for predicting solar weather

Last year, the most powerful geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth. It produced stunning aurora displays in parts of the US that are normally too far south to see them. Normally, such storms are a headache for energy providers. In 1989, for example, the Canadian province of Québec suffered a nine-hour blackout following a series of plasma ejections from the Sun. This time around, power companies were better prepared, and in the US and Canada, …

You might see prettier skies, thanks to new tech from NASA and IBM

What if scientists could predict northern and southern lights like they could an eclipse? What if they could tell you where and when to be outside, within a narrow window, to see these vibrant displays? A new AI might make that possible. Today, IBM introduced Surya, an open-source foundational AI model that was developed in partnership with heliophysics scientists at NASA. “Surya is like an AI telescope for the sun that can also look into the fu…

NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike

Surya, an AI model developed by NASA and IBM, tries to find hidden patterns in solar data to detect solar flares and winds.

What's Surya? IBM-NASA 'AI Telescope' That Will Predict Solar Weather

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in a collaboration with the International Business Machines Corp., have launched, 'Surya', an "AI telescope for the sun" to track solar weather better with a 16% more accuracy than previous systems. The name of the model has been derived from the Sanskrit word for 'Sun'.In practice, the open-source foundation model will apply machine learning to solar image interpretation and forecasting. It was…

NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun - NASA Science

6 min read NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun This image from June 20, 2013 shows the bright light of a solar flare and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere, called a prominence eruption. Shortly thereafter, this same region of the sun sent a coronal mass ejection out into space — a phenomenon which can cause magnetic storms that degrade communication signals and cause unexpected electrical surg…