13 February 2019
Magnetopause makes Earth one enormous drum
...has shown that when struck by powerful impulses such as plasma jets, the protective magnetic bubble surrounding our planet sounds like a... drum-like oscillations after a strong isolated plasma jet slammed into the magnetopause. The data helped solidify...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
...life around hydrothermal vents is a team of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California who have built their own ... Not only that but Cassini has already revealed that jets of icy particles which shoot out at about 800 miles...
06 December 2019
Parker Solar Probe reveals major new insights on the Sun
...in the direction of the magnetic field and sudden, faster-moving jets of material – all characteristics that make the solar wind more ...wind with a large number of these little bursts and jets of plasma, creating long tubes of fast wind containing...
28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
...gas, it released large amounts of matter and energy as powerful jets that astronomers were able to observe with ESA’s XMM-Newton and...hot gas that had been punched through by the black hole jets, but the possibility was discarded at the time. However, ...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... is Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, a robotics technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Bandyopadhyay’s idea is to...III grant to Slava Turyshev, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to continue his ...
10 July 2020
An unexpected class of 'odd' circular objects found by astronomers
... that the ORCs represent a new category of a known phenomenon, such as the jets of a radio galaxy or blazar when seen end-on, down the “barrel” of the jet. Alternatively, they may represent some remnant of a previous outflow from a radio...
