News tagged with energetic neutral atoms

Catching space weather in the act

Close to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from the planet. As you move ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Galactic magnetic fields may control the boundaries of our solar system

The first all-sky maps developed by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, the initial mission to examine the global interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, suggest that the galac ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2

IBEX collecting science data, building first all-sky map of the edge of the solar system

Following two months of commissioning, during which the spacecraft and sensors were tuned for optimum mission performance, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft began gathering data to build the first maps ...

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created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Space weather forecast: Sunspotty, with an increasing chance of solar storms

(Phys.org) -- The past few months have seen a spate of solar flares – bringing spectacular views of the northern lights as far south as Seattle – along with media speculation that the electrical ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBEX and TWINS join forces to observe a solar storm

(Phys.org) -- On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the magnetosphere. As the particles interacted ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

TWINS/IBEX spacecraft observed impact of powerful solar storm from inside and outside Earth's magnetosphere

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged ...

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created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Watching space weather through the MAGIC of CubeSat CINEMA

(PhysOrg.com) -- A trio of CubeSats that will study the effects of space weather on the Earth’s radiation belts and magnetic field are being prepared for launch. TRIO-CINEMA is a collaboration between ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electrons in concert: A simple probe for collective motion in ultracold plasmas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Collective, or coordinated behavior is routine in liquids, where waves can occur as atoms act together. In a milliliter (mL) of liquid water, 1022 molecules bob around, colliding. When a bre ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

IBEX spacecraft measures 'alien' particles from outside solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, an international team of researchers has measured neutral "alien" particles entering our solar system from interstellar ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hot molecule explains cold chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surprisingly, hydrogen cyanide and its far more energetic isomer, hydrogen isocyanide, are present in almost equal amounts in cold interstellar gas clouds. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New FASTSAT discoveries paint detailed view of region near Earth

Space around Earth is anything but a barren vacuum. The area seethes with electric and magnetic fields that change constantly. Charged particles flow through, moving energy around, creating electric currents, ...

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created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Part II: The energy that drives the stars - different technologies for unique demands

(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab, a partner in the Heavy Ion Fusion Sciences Virtual National Laboratory (HIFS VNL) with Lawrence Livermore and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, has been a leader in developing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New discovery sheds light on the ecosystem of young galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists, led by Michael Rauch from the Carnegie Observatories, has discovered a distant galaxy that may help elucidate two fundamental questions of galaxy formation: How galaxies ...

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created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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