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MIT-led team to develop software to help forecast space storms – MIT News
An MIT-led research team will develop software that blends observational data, powerful computational tools, and predictive modeling to better predict space weather.
On a moonless night on Aug. 28, 1859, the sky began to bleed. The phenomenon behind the northern lights had gone global: an aurora stretching luminous, rainbow fingers across time zones and continents illuminated the night sky with an undulating backdrop of crimson. From New England to Australia, people stood in the streets looking up with admiration, inspiration, and fear as the night sky shimmered in Technicolor. But the beautiful display came with a cost. The global telegraph system which at …
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