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…
Dr Jonathan Hare and Professor Paul Lewis at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) worked with Layla Gordon and Glen…
With the launch on 28 December 2005 of GIOVE-A, the first Galileo satellite, Galileo, a joint programme of the European Space Agency and the European…
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) comprises two nearly identical observatories that will orbit the Sun to monitor its violent outbursts known as…
COROT will also delve into the centres of hundreds or even thousands of stars. COROT will lead a bold new search for planets around other stars. In the decade…
The Swiss Light Source (SLS) started operating five years ago in Villigen, Switzerland. Since then, the facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) has been…
Light from this sudden eruption is illuminating the interstellar dust surrounding the star, producing the most spectacular “light echo” in the history of…
Plasma physicists at the Universities of Texas and Michigan have photographed speedy plasma waves, known as Langmuir waves, for the first time using a…
The new technology is called a ‘nanoactuator’ or a molecular dynamo. The device is invisible to the naked eye – about one thousandth of a strand of human hair.
Professor Yan and Dr Lu won their Power/Energy award for developing a new way of measuring the properties of flames in large industrial buildings, such as…
“Some patients require specialized scans that not all of our technologists are familiar with, so we implemented a software program that enables us to run the…
The event, which took place in the Charlemagne Building of the European Commission, was aiming to be a European Forum to explore a wide range of possibilities,…
A deceptively simple experiment, recently published in the journal Science, has moved physics one step closer to explaining the odd behavior of supersolid…
Today, the World Wide Web Consortium forged an important link between Semantic Web and microformats communities. With “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from…
This is the just the kind of challenge faced by astronomers trying to understand the dynamics of the swarm of stars in the globular star clusters that orbit…
STEREO is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. on the evening of Wednesday, October 25 aboard a Delta II rocket. The launch window…
For his work, Field received the Department of Physics and Astronomy Stoddard Prize for the best thesis of 2006. His supervisor, department chair Arie Bodek,…
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