26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
...events themselves, but incidents such as hurricanes or tsunamis can create waves that travel all the way up to this interface to space, ...as little as an hour. As communication signals, like radio waves and signals that make our GPS systems work, also ...
22 December 2015
Magnetic fields around protostar gives a new twist on star formation
... telescope to produce images with unprecedented detail, a team of researchers have measured the polarisation (alignment) of radio waves, emitted by the dusty material, to reveal the configuration of magnetic fields in this region near a young star...
01 February 2016
Enormous gas cloud on a collision course with the Milky Way
...the aptly named Smith Cloud was first detected by radio waves emitted by the changing energy states of neutral ...the chemical composition of the cloud. Combined ultraviolet and radio observations correlate to the cloud's infall velocities, providing...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
... new light on how moons and planets form in young stellar systems. With around 66 radio telescopes that are capable of detecting faint radio waves given off by tiny particles of dust, the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... of electromagnetic interference to these in-situ instruments. The spacecraft is being designed to minimise charged particle deflection, radio wave interference, and electrostatic charging and the levels of varying and static magnetic fields are...
October 2020
Learning from alternative universes
... the ‘afterglow’ of the Big Bang today in the form of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation - a constant stream of radio waves that permeates space from all directions. In the beginning, the expansion of the universe was driven primarily...
