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…
Since then we have launched hundreds of satellites, space probes, telescopes, moon missions, and planetary landers. Now, political scientist Rasmus Karlsson…
The discovery is noteworthy because experimental improvements of this magnitude rarely occur more often than once in a decade.To see the infinitely small bits…
The phenomenon was caused by a coronal mass ejection, a large cloud of magnetized gas cast into space by the sun. The collision resulted in the complete…
“You have all these things that are analogous to Earth. At the same time, it's foreign and unfamiliar,” said Ray Pierrehumbert, the Louis Block Professor in…
Sergei Kopeikin, associate professor of physics and astronomy in the College of Arts and Science, believes that his latest article, “Gravimagnetism, causality,…
We are all familiar with raindrops on our wind screens. The small ones stay in place while the big ones roll down the window. This is because surface tension…
Scientists have discovered a huge belt of warm dust – enough to build a Mars-size planet or larger – swirling around a distant star that is just slightly more…
The invention concerns a procedure for the prevention and diagnosis of fungal infection of vegetable, especially salad plants. Lettuce rot is a common disease…
The FREMA (e-Framework Reference Model for Assessment) project, part of the Joint Information Systems Committee’s (JISC) e-Learning Framework, is a big…
A paper, published today in the Institute of Physics’ New Journal of Physics, demonstrates how a group of physicists from The University of Texas at Austin,…
The Institute for Gravitational Research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy will use the grant to:• continue its research into the detection of…
Despite being little more than a sphere of metal that let out radio-frequency beeps, Sputnik 1 triggered a thrilling space race that led to astronauts soon…
This latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a young star cluster surrounded by a vast region of dust and gas. Most of the bright stars in…
The Institute of Physics’ (IOP) 2008 awards have been announced today (Wednesday, October 3). This year ten new awards have been introduced to ensure that the…
Ozone loss is derived by measuring the area and the depth of the ozone hole. The area of this year’s ozone hole – where the ozone measures less than 220 Dobson…
he international team is taking deep images of an area of sky known as the Extended Groth Strip, an area that covers the width of four full moons, close to the…
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