02 December 2016
GREGOR helps scientists take a closer look at the Sun
... to be extended to tracking an active region over several days. Something that may be possible as one of world's most powerful solar telescopes, with its combination of high spatial resolution and high magnetic field sensitivity, springs into action...
01 June 2018
Largest discovery of trans-Neptunian objects released
...A trans-Neptunian object (TNO) is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than 30...allows researchers to understand many different aspects of the outer Solar System, such as how the formation of TNO’s ties...
29 January 2020
Material older than the Sun found unexpectedly where it shouldn't be
...revise what they think conditions were like in the early solar nebula. Our Solar System is around 4.6 billion years old. It grew ... as they are a window into conditions in the early Solar System. It is generally excepted that the fragile nature of...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
...intelligence and data relay. Science missions, including the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a programme designed to help us .... The Yarkovsky-O’Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect involves solar energy heating the body in question. As the asteroid ...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
...be sourced from whatever means necessary. If your off the grid, then solar panels, be they on a spaceship or hoisted on a pole in .... Sounds like a win-win situation. “The method of Solar Foods for producing protein arose from a desire to produce food...
22 August 2017
Total eclipse wows viewers in the US
... in the day. It was the first total solar eclipse visible in the continental United States in 38 years and...eclipse the glowing-white corona can be seen with simple hand-held solar viewers. How the corona maintains such a high temperature – which ...
