March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... counterpart of the electron). This particle accumulates in the galactic bulge and within gigantic gamma-ray bubbles - the so-called Fermi bubbles, which extend tens of thousands of light-years above and below the Milky Way’s disk...
13 February 2019
Magnetopause makes Earth one enormous drum
...powerful impulses such as plasma jets, the protective magnetic bubble surrounding our planet sounds like a enormous drum. ... is key to understanding the mechanics of Earth’s protective bubble, as while the wave itself remains on the magnetopause’s...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
..., Solar Orbiter will study in unprecedented detail how our Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the bubble of space filled with particles and fields in which the Earth orbits. It will answer questions such as: how...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
.... Duration of flash about 0.15 second. This is more or less what a space nuclear explosion would look like, an expanding bubble of hot glowing plasma We can make some rough estimates for crowding in the EKB. The belt extends...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... an early investor in Planetary Resources. Navain Jain, a multi-millionaire who made his fortune before the Dotcom bubble burst, is a founding partner of Moon Express, an American company which hopes to acquire rights to mine the Moon. Drawing...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... to those that embrace the idea the status may never be quo again as we sail out of the closed bubble. If we do these and the other things, in years to come this decade will be seen as the beginning of the Frontier...
