02 December 2016
GREGOR helps scientists take a closer look at the Sun
...visible and near-infrared wavelengths and its primary scientific goal is high precision measurements of the solar magnetic field. With a spatial resolution of some 50 km, it means that the telescope can distinguish details on the solar surface if the...
26 May 2017
First results from Juno mission
...'s dynamo works,” said Jack Connerney, Juno deputy principal investigator and the lead for the mission's magnetic field investigation at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. At the moment, Juno will be flying around Jupiter...
12 October 2016
Proxima Centauri reveals yet more intrigue as a cycle of dramatic sunspots is observed
...habitability of Proxima b is unknown. Some theories have already been proposed including that a stellar wind or flares driven by magnetic fields, could strip away any atmosphere of the planet leaving its surface barren. However proving this is a long...
19 December 2018
Saturn's iconic rings are dying fast say scientists
... of ice, which is then being pulled into the planet along magnetic field lines, to be devoured by the gas giant at the maximum ...ice particles from Saturn’s rings were flowing down invisible magnetic field lines, and dumping water into the gas giant’s...
05 April 2021
No dark energy needed, just dark matter with a magnetic force new study says
...this repulsive ‘dark’ force can also be explained by magnetic forces from an as un-yet discovered dark matter particle... expansion of dark matter is occurring thanks to some sort of magnetic force?” asks Steen Hansen. And indeed that seems to be ...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
... Definition Geomagnetic Model - Real Time (HDGM-RT) accounts for the crustal, ionospheric and solar-wind induced magnetic fields, in addition to the magnetic fields from Earth’s core. Although the Dst index is used to drive short-period reference...
