01 July 2020
How Earth’s protective magnetic bubble can ‘flap’ over the Moon
...as it orbits the planet. During the time the Moon spends behind Earth – in the full Moon phase – it is inside the magnetosphere ... effects of one high-speed shock wave that barrelled towards Earth, travelling at 1.7 million miles per hour. The shock ...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... star formation regions (cold partially ionised plasmas), the interstellar medium (very tenuous hot plasma), etc. On Earth we have atmospheric lightning (short duration plasma channels), the ionosphere (ionised by radiation from the Sun), discharges...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
... international space community for some time, as many such asteroids are discovered quite late in their approach to Earth. A number of projects aimed at developing a viable planetary defence strategy have been suggested and implemented, including the...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... debris. Even climate change - a complex issue that involves the interaction of human industry and solar radiation on Earth’s atmosphere - is a form of solar threat, though this is not addressed here. A long filament erupted on the Sun on 31 August...
