October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... beyond Earth is the dangerous space radiation environment. Astronauts are exposed to radiation originating from the solar wind, gamma rays, and cosmic rays. Considering mission transits on the order of months, such exposure is a significant threat...
02 February 2016
First detected hot corino in Orion sheds light on low-mass star formation processes
... that the observed gas may be associated with a disk wind gas accelerated at the base. The team also note that...point to these particular COM emission lines as tracing winds and outflowing material, not infalling material onto the protostar, ...
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...
15 December 2020
NOAA launches Crowdsourcing competition for better forecasting of magnetic field
...’s magnetic field. The transfer of energy from solar wind into Earth’s magnetic field causes geomagnetic storms. The... viable constraints, and (3) use specified real-time solar-wind data feeds. All prize-winning solutions will be released under...
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...
