SDO Stories
Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
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Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived…
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NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun
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Editor’s Note: This article was updated Aug. 20, 2025, to correct the number of years of training data used and the model accuracy. The original article said the model was trained on 14 years of Solar Dynamics Observatory data and surpassed…
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What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
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One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the Sun’s…
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