09 March 2018
Juno gives insight into Jupiter's epic winds
... research paper recently submitted to Nature. However, assumptions changed and Kaspi calculated that an imbalance due to the winds in the north and the south should indeed produce a measurable gravitational signal. This was confirmed by measurements...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... the really interesting consequences of this phenomenon is that as the solar wind moves so fast, it has a lot of power (drag x velocity... the power of charged particles, how do you stop? The wind from the Sun only blows out – nothing blows in. Without ...
06 December 2019
Parker Solar Probe reveals major new insights on the Sun
... in long tubes that are approximately the diameter of the Earth. Together, FIELDS and SWEAP, the solar wind instrument suite led by the University of Michigan and managed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, measured clusters of switchbacks...
03 August 2016
Aladin gets ready for Aeolus
...,” said Professor Erland Källén, Director of Research at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts. “In the Tropics, wind information dominates atmospheric analyses and this influences the quality of weather forecasts for Europe for the...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... fields, energetic particles, and image the solar wind. The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation, or SWEAP, ... and temperature to improve our understanding of the solar wind and coronal plasma. The FIELDS instrument suite captures the...
18 January 2017
The unusual tails of a pulsar give a clue as to what type of pulse it generates
... pulsar ploughs through the interstellar medium. "This is one of the nicest results of our larger study of pulsar wind nebulae," said Roger W. Romani, professor of physics at Stanford University and principal investigator of the Chandra PWN project...
