17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
..., which is designed to make high-resolution measurements of the magnetic field lines on the surface of the Sun, is helping the team ... a first. We have never been able to measure the magnetic field at the back of the Sun.” Normally, the first images ...
16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
... the Sun is reaching a low, such as an increase in cosmic rays in the solar system. Normally, the Sun’s strong magnetic field provides a protective shield around all of the planets, that makes it difficult for highly energetic radiation to infiltrate...
18 January 2017
The unusual tails of a pulsar give a clue as to what type of pulse it generates
...with geometry – and it also depends on how the pulsar's spin and magnetic axes are oriented with respect to line of sight whether you see certain ... from the pulsar shoots along the star’s magnetic field, around the pulsar's equatorial plane, and along...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... heat-shield does its job, the probe is equipped with four instrument suites designed to study plasma, magnetic fields, energetic particles, and image the solar wind. The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation...
31 October 2016
Swarm constellation helps figure out why satellites lose their GPS signal
... equator between Africa and South America. Launched in 2013, Swam is an European Space Agency mission to study Earth’s magnetic field. The data gathered will help in gaining new insights into the Earth system by improving our understanding...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
...same goes for finding planets based on emissions from magnetic fields. Even though terrestrial planets are more commonly found ...than gas giants, they are expected to have much weaker magnetic fields due to their relative size and so are harder to...
