Solar Wind
The area between the Sun and the planets, the interplanetary medium, is a turbulent area dominated by a constant stream of hot plasma that billows out from the Sun's corona. This hot...
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Solar Wind
The solar wind is a continuous outward flow of plasma (ionized gas) from the Sun 's corona, its outer atmosphere.
The Sun's corona extends millions of kilometers above the surface of the Su...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The solar wind, which whips
off the sun and blows past Earth and through the solar system,
is unleashed by powerful magnetic waves in electrically charged
gas around the sun...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - NASA's Voyager 2
spacecraft has found that our solar system is not round but is
"dented" by the local interstellar magnetic field of deep
space, space experts said Monday...
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They Blinded Me With Science! We just can’t get over the fact that there’s something called “The Science Barge” and that it’s docked at Riverside Drive and 70th Street...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lightning crackles in the
atmosphere of Earth's "evil twin" Venus, while the meager
remnants of suspected bygone oceans continue to be whipped off
the planet and lost to spa...
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In an effort to further his bid to make
Nevada
the renewable energy capital of the world,
Sen.
Harry
Reid
last week released a report outlining the potential economic benefits of developing sol...
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China is considering halting efforts to make oil from coal due to concerns about the expense and energy demands, a state news agency on Sunday quoted an official as saying.China is hoping to ease i...
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Japan and Chile agreed Monday to further enhance cooperation on
environmental and climate change issues, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
and visiting Chilean President Michelle Bachelet met in T...
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New observations from NASA's long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft show the solar system is asymmetrical, likely from disturbances in the interstellar magnetic field, scientists reported Monday.The dis...
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So many satellites. Just one rocket.Five NASA satellites stacked like a wedding cake are set to launch on a single rocket Friday, part of a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic ...
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Solar Wind
Solar Wind
Scientists find what makes the solar wind howl
