News tagged with plasma field
Video simulation puts a new twist on fusion plasma research
Samuel Lazerson, an associate research physicist in advanced projects at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has created a video simulation showing the intricate nature of a plasma ...
Nov 10, 2011 |
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A new spin on understanding plasma confinement
To achieve nuclear fusion for practical energy production, scientists often use magnetic fields to confine plasma. This creates a magnetic (or more precisely "magneto-hydrodynamic") fluid in which plasma is tied to magnetic ...
Nov 10, 2011 |
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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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Exoplanet aurora: An out-of-this-world sight
Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thing. New ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Image: Pretty in pink
(PhysOrg.com) -- Inside the Plasma Spray-Physical Vapor Deposition, or PS-PVD, ceramic powder is introduced into the plasma flame, which vaporizes it and then condenses it to form the ceramic coating.
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Catching space weather in the act
Close to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from the planet. As you move ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 17, 2011 |
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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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Saturn's magnetic field inflated by hot plasma explosions
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds a causal link between mysterious, periodic signals from Saturn's magnetic field and explosions of hot ionized gas, known as ...
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Dec 15, 2010 |
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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.
Nov 08, 2010 |
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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 -- ...
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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Solving the mysteries of the plasma universe
What powers the most luminous sources in the universe? How is the plasma state altered by ultra-strong magnetic field? How do magnetic explosions work?
Oct 29, 2010 |
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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 ...
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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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