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Earth braces for impact as rare 'four-way' solar storm set to strike in just HOURS

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Exploding number of solar storms feared to spark deadly health emergency for more than half of humanity

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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The Download: Ukraine's Starlink repair shop, and predicting solar storms

MIT Technology Review

Starlink is absolutely critical to Ukraine's ability to continue in the fight against Russia. It's how troops in battle zones stay connected with faraway HQs; it's how many of the drones essential to Ukraine's survival hit their targets; it's even how soldiers stay in touch with spouses and children back home. However, Donald Trump's fickle foreign policy and reports suggesting Elon Musk might remove Ukraine's access to the services have cast the technology's future in the country into doubt. For now Starlink access largely comes down to the unofficial community of users and engineers, including the expert "Dr. Starlink"--famous for his creative ways of customizing the systems--who have kept Ukraine in the fight, both on and off the front line.


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

MIT Technology Review

There's no way to prevent these sorts of effects, but being able to predict when a large solar flare will occur could let people work around them. However, as Louise Harra, an astrophysicist at ETH Zurich, puts it, "when it erupts is always the sticking point." Scientists can easily tell from an image of the sun if there will be a solar flare in the near future, says Harra, who did not work on Surya. But knowing the exact timing and strength of a flare is much harder, she says. That's a problem because a flare's size can make the difference between small regional radio blackouts every few weeks (which can still be disruptive) or a devastating solar superstorm that would cause satellites to fall out of orbit and electrical grids to fail.


Imagery Tracking of Sun Activity Using 2D Circular Kernel Time Series Transformation, Entropy Measures and Machine Learning Approaches

Oludehinwa, Irewola Aaron, Velichko, Andrei, Belyaev, Maksim, Olusola, Olasunkanmi I.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The sun is highly complex in nature and its observatory imagery features is one of the most important sources of information about the sun activity, space and Earth's weather conditions. The NASA, solar Dynamics Observatory captures approximately 70,000 images of the sun activity in a day and the continuous visual inspection of this solar observatory images is challenging. In this study, we developed a technique of tracking the sun's activity using 2D circular kernel time series transformation, statistical and entropy measures, with machine learning approaches. The technique involves transforming the solar observatory image section into 1-Dimensional time series (1-DTS) while the statistical and entropy measures (Approach 1) and direct classification (Approach 2) is used to capture the extraction features from the 1-DTS for machine learning classification into 'solar storm' and 'no storm'. We found that the potential accuracy of the model in tracking the activity of the sun is approximately 0.981 for Approach 1 and 0.999 for Approach 2. The stability of the developed approach to rotational transformation of the solar observatory image is evident. When training on the original dataset for Approach 1, the match index (T90) of the distribution of solar storm areas reaches T90 ~ 0.993, and T90 ~ 0.951 for Approach 2. In addition, when using the extended training base, the match indices increased to T90 ~ 0.994 and T90 ~ 1, respectively. This model consistently classifies areas with swirling magnetic lines associated with solar storms and is robust to image rotation, glare, and optical artifacts.


NASA could only give a 30-minute warning before a killer solar storm hits Earth

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Killer solar storms could knock out the internet and power for hours - and you would only have 30 minutes to prepare, according to a NASA study. The American space agency developed a new artificial intelligent-powered system to predict when destructive events will strike Earth. While the system is the most advanced warning, 30 minutes may not be enough time for the world to prepare for complete darkness. However, people can now take steps to prepare for an extreme solar event - such as creating a survival kit and having printed copies of digital documents. NASA announced the development of its computer model called DAGGER (formally, Deep Learning Geomagnetic Perturbation) in March, but the research is now gaining public traction.


Bracing for Impact: NASA's New AI Model To Defend Earth From Dangerous Space Weather

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Intense solar storms can cause electrical blackouts. Like a tornado siren for life-threatening storms in America's heartland, a new computer model that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and NASA satellite data could sound the alarm for dangerous space weather. The model uses AI to analyze spacecraft measurements of the solar wind (an unrelenting stream of material from the Sun) and predict where an impending solar storm will strike, anywhere on Earth, with 30 minutes of advance warning. This could provide just enough time to prepare for these storms and prevent severe impacts on power grids and other critical infrastructure. The solar wind is a gusty stream of material that flows from the Sun in all directions, all the time, carrying the Sun's magnetic field out into space.


NASA AI model could help world prepare for impact of solar storms

FOX News

NASA shared a video taken by its Solar Dynamic Observatory showing dark patches on the sun, giving the illusion of a smile. NASA said Thursday that a new computer model that combines artificial intelligence and agency satellite data could help prepare for dangerous space weather. The model, called DAGGER (Deep Learning Geomagnetic Perturbation), uses the technical tool to analyze spacecraft measurements of the solar wind and forecast where an impending solar storm will strike on Earth – with 30 minutes of advance warning. An international team of researchers at the Frontier Development Lab said the model can produce predictions in less than a second, with predictions updating every minute. The lab is a partnership that includes NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Energy.


Artificial intelligence used to predict space weather - SpaceRef

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A Northumbria University physicist has been awarded more than half a million pounds to develop artificial intelligence which will protect the Earth from devastating space storms. Activity from the Sun such as solar eruptions, known as Coronal Mass Ejections, results in plasma being fired towards Earth at supersonic speeds, which can result in serious disruption to power and communication systems. With our increasing reliance on technology, solar storms pose a serious threat to our everyday lives, leading to severe space weather being added to the UK National Risk Assessment for the first time in 2011. Northumbria's Dr Andy Smith has recently been awarded a Research Fellowship from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to explore how physics-inspired machine learning could be used to forecast space weather more accurately and predict serious space storms. During the Next Generation, Physics-Inspired AI for Space Weather Forecasting project, Dr Smith and his team will analyse huge amounts of data from satellites and space missions over the last 20 years to gain a better understanding of the conditions under which storms are likely to occur.