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 been under debate for decades – ...
Measurements taken by the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are providing important new insights from some of the farthest reaches of space ever explored.
Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...
"Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and when the wind is not blowing," ...
SPRAKEBUELL, Germany (AP) — The wind gusting across north German farm country brings much to the village of Sprakebuell: fog and rain from the sea, the occasional migrating stork, the faint smell of ...
Mars experienced a sudden rupture in the cosmic order about one year ago. It was almost like the red planet had briefly been transported to another solar system. Normally in our solar system, the sun ...
Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space. The sun keeps a tight rein on everything in the Solar System, but it isn’t always the ...
SAPPORO, Japan - Ocean winds whip across the beaches, hillsides and sprawling plains of Hokkaido. There’s enough wind energy here for Japan’s northernmost island to power itself and export clean ...
"This was a key objective of the mission and opens the way for us to study the solar wind's origin in unprecedented detail." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
The Parker Solar Probe is providing NASA researchers with insights into how the sun accelerates particles to a million miles per hour. By Kenneth Chang High-speed particles spew out of the sun like ...
"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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