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...
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...
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...
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...
July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
... in turn is the cause of radio emission. In air, the particle cascades are somewhat larger and affected by the magnetic field of Earth; still, their radio signals are intrinsically similar to the radio signals expected from neutrinos. The...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
... by a 10 km-thick layer of atmosphere and by the planet’s magnetic field. The further away from Earth, the more dangerous it becomes as, ...your ‘bucket list’? But it may very well be a magnet, too, for couples attracted by the unique opportunity to try...
