01 June 2020
Giant magnetic spots discovered on small super-hot stars
... by Yazan Momany from the INAF Astronomical Observatory of Padua in Italy, used instruments on ESO telescopes, including VIMOS, FLAMES and FORS2, as well as OmegaCAM attached to the VLT Survey Telescope at Paranal Observatory, to study these stars...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
... ISS to understand the effects of microgravity, such as flame formation, bacteria/plant growth and astronaut biology, while cargo... production. Microgravity has a significant effect on how flames burn. Why Mars? There are many spacecraft across...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
Twenty years ago on 15 October 1997, a mighty streak of flame from a Titan/Centaur rocket split the pre-dawn sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the ...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... docking with the International Space Station, or video clips of re-useable or privately funded rocket ships landing on pillars of flame, they are and will become icons of what those in the future will know to have been major...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... gas that damps the ferocity of wildfires. If an atmosphere is too rich in O2, then flames burn wildly because the convection of air that cools the flame also brings in the O2 that fuels it. Adding N2 to the mix allows convection to carry...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
...are constantly buffeted by the solar wind (very much like the flame of a candle in the wind). As a result, space ...are constantly buffeted by the solar wind (very much like the flame of a candle in the wind) Scientists monitor geomagnetic storms ...
