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Tereza Pultarova

Meet Surya, the 1st-of-its-kind AI model NASA and IBM built to predict solar storms

An active region on the surface of the sun can be seen here releasing a solar flare. The image comes from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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.

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