August 2018
Flying to the stars
..., the farthest human-made object, the Voyager 1 probe, would be at a distance of about 141 metres from the Sun, increasing its distance by about 3.6 metres per year. In reality Voyager 1 flies at an astonishing velocity of 17 km/s; at this velocity...
10 May 2016
When sunspots are minimal, the solar magnetic field is at a maximum, say researchers
... of 200,000 km up to the visible surface of the Sun (the photosphere) and due to the turbulent state of the ... is often remarked as looking like a pot of boiling water. "The Sun as such is impossible to replicate on present-day computers - or those of...
20 August 2021
"Weird" comet ATLAS may be a remnant of an ancient visitor
...comet swept within 37 million kilometres (23 million miles) of the Sun – an orbit closer than the innermost planet Mercury makes. But...parent comet, ATLAS disintegrated while it was farther from the Sun than Earth, at a distance of over 161 million ...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...-2, GAIA, Cheops and TESS). The Twinkle satellite will be built in the UK and launched into a low-Earth, sun-synchronous orbit by 2019, using a platform designed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and a payload built by a consortium of UK institutes...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... planet, LHS 3844 b has more in common with the sun-facing side of Mercury than it does with our own temperate...the list,” said Vanderspek. “Because M stars are cooler than the Sun, the habitable zone is closer to the star, where the orbital periods...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
... Alexander L5 advantage Vigil’s strategic position at the L5 Lagrange point, 60 degrees behind Earth in its orbit around the Sun, offers a unique view of solar activity before it becomes Earth-facing. “Think of it as watching an arrow from the side...
