27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
... often outflows are produced by the star as it settles into its red giant phase of life. As the fast wind collides with the earlier produced material it forms a dense ring of material and, at present the shockwave generated...
June 2015
FanWing: short take-off capability creates a new way to fly
...off and heavy lift capability. Pat Peebles at the SOAR wind tunnel, von Karman Institute. The media were the first ...and Aerospace Research Centre; the team has conducted preliminary wind-tunnel tests and computational fluid dynamics simulations at the...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... refuge as well as a sports arena - it can survive winds in excess of 200mph As a result, radar observations from Goldstone... the widest point, the area would be mostly impacted by wind speeds of 15-20 metres per second. In the primary impact area...
January 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 ...
