News tagged with field lines

Image: Holes in the Sun's corona

This Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the Sun taken on January 10 in extreme ultraviolet light captures a dark coronal hole just about at sun center.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Fusion makes major step forward at MIT through studies of the plasma edge

Researchers at MIT have taken steps toward practical fusion energy through better understanding of the physics that governs the interaction between plasmas and the material walls of the vessels that contain them.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Taming thermonuclear plasma with a snowflake

Physicists working on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are now one step closer to solving one of the grand challenges of magnetic fusion research -- ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Scientists unlock the secrets of exploding plasma clouds on the sun

Twisted "ropes" of magnetic field lines erupt from the Sun and tanglewith the Earth's magnetic field.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Evidence of new solar activity from observations of aurora in New Zealand

Scientists from Boston University's Center for Space Physics (CSP) announced that they have sub-visual evidence of the onset of a new cycle of solar-terrestrial activity. The key results being reported deal ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 13, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Enceladus leaves plasma bubbles in its wake

(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations of how Saturn’s moon Enceladus interacts with its environment show it leaves a complex pattern of ripples and bubbles in its wake. Sheila Kanani will be presenting the results ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Solar Scientists Use 'Magnetic Mirror Effect' to Reproduce IBEX Observation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission scientists released the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system's edge in particles, solar physicists have been busy ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Magnetic Dance of Titan and Saturn To Be Main Attraction during Flyby

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it flies by Saturn's largest moon, Titan, this weekend, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will study the interactions between the magnetic field of Saturn and Titan. The flyby will take place ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole's edge

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new data from ESA's XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 9

THEMIS satellite tracks electrical tornadoes in space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth-bound tornadoes are puny compared to "space tornadoes," which span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes, according to new observations ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Cattle respond to magnetic fields from power lines

(AP) -- High-voltage power lines mess with animal magnetism. Researchers, who reported last year that most cows and deer tend to orient themselves in a north-south alignment, have now found that power lines can disorient ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 9


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