Small-scale structures of solar wind emerging from a coronal hole on the sun ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI/Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta The powerful solar wind may come from tiny jets of plasma. The solar wind is a barrage of charged particles, and how exactly those particles flow out from the sun has […]
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High-speed particles spew out of the sun like water from a shower head, scientists reported on Wednesday. Data from the Parker Space Probe, a NASA spacecraft that launched in 2018 and is now swooping in to gather readings of the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is providing clues about how […]
Water found on grains on lunar soil by the Chinese Lunar Exploration Programme’s Chang’e-5 rover came from the solar wind, researchers have determined. The study was undertaken by researchers from the Chinese National Space Science Center and Institute of Geology and Geophysics. The connection to the solar wind was identified […]
New images from a Sun-orbiting spacecraft may explain strange phenomena within the Sun’s atmosphere that have puzzled solar physicists for decades. The data—released yesterday from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter—shed literal light on shifts in the Sun’s magnetic field known as switchbacks. They could even help explain other solar […]
Dr. Parker, he said, was happy when people pointed out a mistake in his calculations but not pleased when people accepted prevalent scientific assumptions without question. “He had little patience for ‘It’s well known that …’” Dr. Turner said. Even though Dr. Chandrasekhar, a future Nobel laureate, disagreed with Dr. […]
Evidence from asteroids shows that charged particles from the sun can turn dust grains into water – a process that could be useful for space exploration too Earth 29 November 2021 By Jonathan O’Callaghan Illustration of Earth’s blue surface lit up by the sun Buradaki / Alamy The sun’s solar […]
Video call is first meeting between new ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and CNSA head Zhang Kejian. HELSINKI — The heads of the European Space Agency and China National Space Administration held a video call April 1 to outline respective plans for the coming years. Zhang Kejian, administrator of the CNSA, […]