News tagged with solar plasma
First large-Scale, physics-based space weather model transitions into operation
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first large-scale, physics-based space weather prediction model is transitioning from research into operation.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Cassini to probe Rhea for clues to Saturn rings
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's icy moon Rhea might seem a strange place to look for clues to understanding the vast majestic rings encircling Saturn. But that's what NASA's Cassini spacecraft plans to do on its ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Smithsonian instrument 'fills the gap,' views sun's innermost corona
During a total eclipse of the Sun, skywatchers are awed by the shimmering corona -- a faint glow that surrounds the Sun like gossamer flower petals. This outer layer of the Sun's atmosphere is, paradoxically, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 04, 2011 |
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IBEX makes first images of magnetotail structures, dynamic interactions occurring in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Invisible to the naked eye, yet massive in structure around the Earth is the magnetosphere, the region of space around the planet that ebbs and flows in response to the million-mile-per-hour ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Getting to know the sun advances fusion research
Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have successfully used Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) to generate plasma current and couple it to a conventional current generation method at the National Spherical ...
Nov 08, 2010 |
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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.
Nov 08, 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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Scientists Use Atomic Physics Codes to Study Coronal Mass Ejections
(PhysOrg.com) -- Giant eruptions of ionized gas, or plasma, from the Sun called coronal mass ejections [CMEs] produce solar energetic particles that cause spacecraft anomalies and communication interruptions, ...
Apr 07, 2010 |
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Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak
Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Signs of ideal surfing conditions spotted in ocean of solar wind
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick have found what could be the signal of ideal wave "surfing" conditions for individual particles within the massive turbulent ocean of the solar wind. The discovery ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Researchers develop new method for producing transparent conductors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at UCLA have developed a new method for producing a hybrid graphene-carbon nanotube, or G-CNT, for potential use as a transparent conductor in solar cells and consumer electronic devices. These ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 13, 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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The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (w/Video)
On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Explaining the Mystery of the Voyager
With a new 3D-model for energy simulation scientists from Bochum, Germany, and Huntsville, USA, are studying the 'physical mystery' of the Voyager. Over 30 years ago the spacecraft detected particles in solar wind which were ...
Feb 27, 2009 |
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