NEW AI MODEL DETECTS HIDDEN SIGNS OF SOLAR ERUPTIONS HOURS BEFORE THEY EMERGE

NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 14 -- New Jersey Institute of Technology issued the following news release:

Long before dark sunspots appear on the Sun's surface, a new active region - where powerful solar eruptions can originate - begins showing subtle signs of its formation.



Now, researchers say a new artificial intelligence model can detect those early signals and forecast the emergence of solar active regions nearly nine hours in advance on average.



In a study published Aug. 14 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, a research team led by New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) reports an artificial intelligence model, called EarlyDetect, that can identify precursor signals of active region emergence in th...