04 November 2019
Its official! Voyager 2 has passed into interstellar space
... process regularly occurs between the Earth and Sun’s magnetic field, so it would be no surprise to find the same thing happening between the Sun’s (magnetic) field and the interstellar field. Unlike Voyager 1 however, Voyager 2 did not come across...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
... than ever seen before and determine the causes of potentially harmful solar activity. "It's all about the magnetic field," said Thomas Rimmele, director of the Inouye Solar Telescope. "To unravel the sun's biggest mysteries, we have to not...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... and optimised propellant injection mechanisms. HTS can be applied to other EP technologies which also require the use of magnetic fields, such as Hall-effect thrusters and Helicon Plasma Thrusters. Here, the use of HTS enables mass reduction...
01 June 2020
Giant magnetic spots discovered on small super-hot stars
...sunspots on our own Sun. Although both are caused by magnetic fields, not only are EHB spots significantly larger than sunspots, covering..., it could also help explain the origin of strong magnetic fields in many white dwarfs; a small very dense star ...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... Molonglo radio telescope’s observations has helped confirm the extragalactic nature of one-off FRB events Secondly, magnetic fields play very critical roles in almost every aspect of astrophysics, ranging from star formation to large-scale galactic...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
...), the fundamental process of reconnection provided a pathway for the early Earth’s evaporated atmosphere to travel along the magnetic field lines all the way to the Moon, where the volatiles could be stored in the lunar soil - protected...
