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...
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...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... taken place. They include securing a dedicated, operational solar-wind monitoring spacecraft stationed between Sun and Earth, at a distance of 1.5 million km. This was achieved with the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft. NOAA has...
