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…
Their recent results* not only will impact the design of future generations of integrated circuits but also lay to rest a long-standing disagreement in results…
This discovery raises hopes for even smaller and faster gadgets that could result from magnetic data storage in a semiconductor material, which could then…
The European Commission, the Austrian government and the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union are organizing the Conference. It will include…
There was something peculiar about dolphins that stumped prolific British zoologist Sir James Gray in 1936.He had observed the sea mammals swimming at a swift…
This is the second finding of a source of galactic cosmic rays relatively near Earth announced in the past week. In the November 20 issue of the journal…
The Physical Sciences division of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) is one of the joint financiers of the Extended Submillimeter Array…
On 24-25 November 2008, the 50th Council meeting of the ESRF approved a 10% budget increase for 2009, to start a 177 million Euros Upgrade Programme over the…
Galaxy Zoo, which uses volunteers from the general public to classify galaxies and the Space Telescope A901/902 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES) projects have…
The Moon Impact Probe was dropped close to Shackleton crater, a place close to the south pole, where ice may exist in areas that are never illuminated by the…
The international team of researchers, including a researcher at University College London (UCL), used the IRAM radio telescope in France to detect the…
The STAGES study led by the University’s Centre for Astronomy and Particle Theory examines galaxy evolution using images from the Hubble Space Telescope.A…
The new geomagnetic observatory is located on the island of Tristan da Cunha and was inaugurated on Friday 14 November by the island’s roughly 300 inhabitants…
In an unprecedented effort demonstrating the potential of European scientific cooperation, all of European astronomy is now joining forces to define the…
The Carina Nebula contains several ultra-hot stars, including these two star systems and the famous blue star Eta Carinae, which has the highest luminosity yet…
An international team of scientists has for the first time computed the masses of one of the most important constituents of matter – protons and neutrons. The…
A research team led by Dr Alan Drew (University of Fribourg, Switzerland and Queen Mary, London) and Dr Elvezio Morenzoni (Paul Scherrer Institute – PSI,…
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