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A Flare for Forecasting: Sun Seismology Points to Better Solar Weather Predictions
A team of solar scientists says it has improved on approaches that predict the eruption of solar flares, violent bursts of energy that can damage satellites, endanger astronauts in orbit and even threaten the power grid on the ground. Space agencies, airlines, satellite operators and power utilities would like to have access to better forecasts of all kinds of space weather-the charged particles and streams of radiation spewed out in irregular burps and blasts by the sun.
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A team of solar scientists says it has improved on approaches that predict the eruption of solar flares, violent bursts of energy that can damage satellites, endanger astronauts in orbit and even threaten the power grid on the ground. Space agencies, airlines, satellite operators and power utilities would like to have access to better forecasts of all kinds of space weather-the charged particles and streams of radiation spewed out in irregular burps and blasts by the sun.
