News tagged with solar plasma
Plasmas torn apart: Physicists make discovery that hints at origin of phenomena like solar flares
January saw the biggest solar storm since 2005, generating some of the most dazzling northern lights in recent memory.
Feb 15, 2012 |
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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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First ever STEREO images of the entire Sun (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's official: The sun is a sphere.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 07, 2011 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Study reveals structures of solar wind as it travels toward, impacts Earth (w/ video)
Using data collected by NASA's STEREO spacecraft, researchers at Southwest Research Institute and the National Solar Observatory have developed the first detailed images of solar wind structures as plasma ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2011 |
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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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Space storm tracked from sun to earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, ...
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Research could improve laser-manufacturing technique
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have discovered details about the behavior of ultrafast laser pulses that may lead to new applications in manufacturing, diagnostics and other research.
Dec 19, 2011 |
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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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Geomagnetic data reveal unusual nature of recent solar minimum
Since the mid-1800s, scientists have been systematically measuring changes in the Earth's magnetic field and the occurrence of geomagnetic activity. Such long- term investigation has uncovered a number of cyclical changes, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012 |
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