The new AI model may help NASA and NOAA better forecast auroras.

"Our society is built on technologies that are highly susceptible to space weather," said NASA's Heliophysics Division Director Joseph Westlake in the release. "Just as we use meteorology to forecast Earth's weather, space weather forecasts predict the conditions and events in the space environment that can affect Earth and our technologies."

Surya, an AI model developed by NASA and IBM, tries to find hidden patterns in solar data to detect solar flares and winds.