February 2016
How to Build Planets
... the entire disc can be dispersed completely. This dispersal is thought to occur due to a photoevaporative wind generated by the central star. The wind opens up a gap that cuts off the inner disc from being resupplied by gas from...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
... the Sun and are a major component of solar radiation and solar wind. A proton is simply a hydrogen nucleus. Hydrogen can have other...fusion reactions and there is quite a bit in the solar wind. The nuclei are all ions, their electrons stripped away as...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
...A is losing gas rapidly from its upper atmosphere via a stellar wind. Mira B exerts a gravitational tug that creates a gaseous bridge ...between the two stars. Gas from the wind and bridge accumulates in an accretion disk around Mira B ...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... radiation is deflected by the increased strength of the solar wind. The exact opposite effect is seen at solar minimum activity...energy electrons and protons, mostly originating from the solar wind, which are captured and trapped in Earth’s magnetic ...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...provide insight on the inner corona where solar wind and CMEs originate. Enabling new science capabilities ...particular the inner corona below 2.5 solar radius where the solar wind is accelerated and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are initiated. But...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... in space has a capacity factor of nearly 100 percent, not suffering from intermittencies experienced by terrestrial solar and wind power; it produces no greenhouse gases, radioactive waste, pollution, or scarring of the Earth for resources; and from...
