A first-of-its kind AI-powered model attempts to better predict space weather and its impacts.

The model — called Surya, for the Sanskrit word for "sun," was put together by NASA and IBM and trained on nine years' worth of sun imagery captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft.

SDO, which orbits Earth at an altitude of 22,200 miles (35,800 kilometers), has been a workhorse of solar activity monitoring for more than 15 years. The new AI model will make the most of its views by finding hidden patterns in them that could help predict solar flares, the speed of the solar wind and the emergence of active regions that give rise to solar eruptions.

"By developing a foundation model trained on NASA's heliophysics data, we're making it easier to analyze the complexities of th

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