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New research contributes to defense of Earth's technologies
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 03, 2009 |
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University of Leicester researchers have taken a step forward in helping to create a defence for earth's technologies -from the constant threat of space weather.
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First laboratory experiment to accurately model stellar jets explains mysterious 'knots'
Feb 09, 2009 |
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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 ...
Roadrunner supercomputer models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers
Oct 28, 2009 |
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For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure ...
Astrophysicists Move Closer to Understanding the Beauty Behind Stellar Jets
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Energy simulation may explain turbulence mystery
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new 3D model linking magnetic fields to the transfer of energy in space might help solve a physics mystery first observed in the solar wind 15 years ago.
NASA Mission Gets Closer to Solving Magnetic Reconnection Mystery (w/ Videos)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is designing a mission to investigate one of the most fundamental and explosive physical processes in the universe - magnetic reconnection. Known as the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) ...
With stimulus aid, scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where ...
Virginia Tech, Naval Research Lab co-host international workshop on dusty plasma physics
Jun 19, 2006 |
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Most of the universe exists in a state called "dusty plasma". In the solar system, dusty plasma forms with the interaction of dust particles with gases and may appear as tails of comets or as planetary rings.
Magnetic fields get reconnected in turbulent plasma too
Mar 27, 2007 |
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Using measurements of the four ESA's Cluster satellites, a study published this week in Nature Physics shows pioneering experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection also in turbulent 'plasma' around Earth.
'It might be life Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space are revealed today in the New Journal of ...
Saturn's Moon Rhea Sports a Dusty Halo
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Mar 06, 2008 |
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Who'd have guessed that Saturn has its own moon-sized vacuum cleaners, circling the ringed planet and sucking up electrons from the plasma at the orbit of the icy moons. Or that one of Saturn's moons has its ...
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