Physicists explain how type of aurora on Mars is formed
Physicists led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed.
Planetary Sciences
May 18, 2022
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Scientists discover distant long-period comets quickly fade away
As comets approach the Sun, they release gas and dust known to astronomers as cometary activity. For comets passing near or inside Earth's orbit, this activity slows over successive orbits. University of Oklahoma astronomer ...
Astronomy
Mar 30, 2022
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Researcher makes magnetic reconnection breakthrough that may help predict space weather
A West Virginia University postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic reconnection, which could prevent space storms from wreaking havoc on the ...
Plasma Physics
Mar 11, 2022
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Astronomers inspect interstellar medium of the galaxy SPT0346-52
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers observed an interstellar medium in a distant star-forming galaxy SPT0346-52. The collected data could be essential in improving ...
Researchers reveal 3D structure and evolution of magnetic islands in fast magnetic reconnection
A joint research team has found the formation of magnetic islands with the twisted structure in the current sheet during the fast magnetic reconnection for the first time.
General Physics
Feb 10, 2022
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The Parker Solar Probe is getting pelted by hypervelocity dust. Could it damage the spacecraft?
There's a pretty significant disadvantage to going really fast—if you get hit with anything, even if it is small, it can hurt. So when the fastest artificial object ever—the Parker Solar Probe—gets hit by grains of ...
Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2021
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New findings about ions around comets
Sofia Bergman, Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and Umeå University, will defend her doctoral thesis on low-energy ions around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 26 November. Observing low energy ions is notoriously ...
Astronomy
Nov 24, 2021
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Tiny grains, severe damage: Hypervelocity dust impacts on a spacecraft produce plasma explosions and debris clouds
The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, NASA's newest and most ambitious effort to study the sun, has broken a lot of records: it has gotten closer to the sun than any other spacecraft to date, its instruments have operated at ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 8, 2021
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Micro-scale current sheets unleash macro-scale space weather
While movies show Earth as existing in a calm, pristine corner of the universe, in reality the near-Earth space environment is dangerous and dynamic. On any given day, hot charged particles and blobs of plasma, called the ...
General Physics
Nov 8, 2021
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3D simulations improve understanding of energetic-particle radiation and help protect space assets
A team of researchers used 3D particle simulations to model the acceleration of ions and electrons in a physical process called magnetic reconnection. The results could contribute to the understanding and forecasting of energetic ...
General Physics
Nov 2, 2021
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