News tagged with plasma field
Spacequakes Rumble Near Earth (w/ Video)
Researchers using NASA's fleet of five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights. They call it ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Scientists Explore the Mystery of Active Region Outflows
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese Hinode spacecraft that launched in September 2006 contains the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), which provides measurements of properties of the solar corona such ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2010 |
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New project aims for fusion ignition
Russia and Italy have entered into an agreement to build a new fusion reactor outside Moscow that could become the first such reactor to achieve ignition, the point where a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining ...
May 10, 2010 |
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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
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light
(PhysOrg.com) -- A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma
If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Something similar occurs when one increases the electrical current flowing in a magnetized plasma doughnut: it ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Scientists explain mystery of observed turbulent density fluctuations in interplanetary space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have developed a three-dimensional simulation model to understand behavior of interplanetary charged particles in space.
Oct 28, 2009 |
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On the road to fusion energy, an accelerator to study warm dense matter
Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it's hot in here, but to a physicist it's merely warm - warm dense matter, ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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U.S. ITER awards contracts worth $33 million for materials for ITER's largest magnets
(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Astrophysicists Move Closer to Understanding the Beauty Behind Stellar Jets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain stars stream vast amounts of matter into space, creating some of the most beautiful objects in astronomers' telescopes. But while the astronomers can enjoy the beauty, they can't explain it. Adam ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Ganymede makes big impression on Jupiter's auroral lightshows (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of features in Jupiter’s spectacular and rapidly changing aurorae have given new insights into the complex electromagnetic interactions between the giant planet and two of its innermost ...
Sep 18, 2009 |
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How space eruptions happen
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians at the University of St Andrews have made a discovery which could lead to a better understanding of why huge eruptions occur in space.
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Simple device can ensure food gets to the store bacteria free
A Purdue University researcher has found a way to eliminate bacteria in packaged foods such as spinach and tomatoes, a process that could eliminate worries concerning some food-borne illnesses.
Mar 02, 2009 |
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First laboratory experiment to accurately model stellar jets explains mysterious 'knots'
Some of the most breathtaking objects in the cosmos are the jets of matter streaming out of stars, but astrophysicists have long been at a loss to explain how these jets achieve their varied shapes. Now, laboratory research ...
Feb 09, 2009 |
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