Young stars ejecting plasma could give us clues into the Sun’s past Kyoto, Japan — Down here on Earth we don’t usually notice, but the Sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma into space. These are called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). They often occur together with sudden brightenings called flares, and sometimes extend far enough to disturb Earth’s magnetosphere, generating space weather phenomena including auroras or geomagnetic storms, and even damaging power grids on occasion. Scientists believe that when…
In a plenary talk on Tuesday 17 April at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Dr James Klimchuk of the Naval Research…
Scientists have now made a major breakthrough in understanding this complexity by studying the ‘skeleton’ of the magnetic field. A team of scientists from St…
On Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 April at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Richard Harrison and Dr Chris Davis of the Rutherford Appleton…
Like a tenuous gas, dark matter is all around us – it goes through us all the time without us noticing – but tends to collect in large quantities around…
This discovery allows the astronomers to study the first important stages in the formation of the kind of galaxies we see in the Universe today. One of the…
In a talk on Tuesday 17 April at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Michael Bode of Liverpool John Moores…
Speaking at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston on Tuesday 17 April, Professor Barstow will present a map of the local…
“This is the first model that goes into some reasonable detail about the nuclear physics that occur in the crusts of accreting neutron stars,” said Hendrik…
One that was different. One that was simpler. And best of all, one that he was sure would work.It was the August 2005 meeting of the physicists working and…
The research, based at the University of Sussex and the London Knowledge Lab, developed the ‘HOMEWORK’ interactive learning system which enables children…
She improved both the tests and the method to determine the reliability of the tests. This means, for example, that washing machines and coffee machines can be…
The world’s first trials of advanced new wireless communication technologies have started in Dublin. The globally unique trials are being conducted by an…
School students from across Europe and beyond have won prizes in an astronomy competition, including the trip of a lifetime to one of the world's most powerful…
Launched to meet the increasing need for open access journals from major research institutes (such as CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research) and…
Observant Dubliners may spot a large unmarked white van on their roads next week with antennae on the roof and men in white coats ‘skulking’ around various…
ESA's Darwin mission aims to discover extrasolar planets and examine their atmospheres for signs of life, particularly for the presence of certain life-related…
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