Artificial intelligence helps physicists predict dangerous solar flares
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 18:20
in Astronomy & Space
Solar flares can release the energy equivalent of many atomic bombs, enough to cut out satellite communications and damage power grids on Earth, 93 million miles away. The flares arise from twisted magnetic fields that occur all over the sun's surface, and they increase in frequency every 11 years, a cycle that is now at its maximum.