A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun few days ago, throwing a cloud of fast moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth. Image Credit Bjørn Jørgensen
Earth’s Magnetosphere
April 28, 2011
You’ve seen the pattern in science class when you laid bits of iron around a bar magnet. The invisible force field around the magnet becomes suddenly visible when the iron filings fall into line. The iron-cored Earth is also a great magnet, and scientists have spent a century exploring its shape and structure. Visualization built by Greg Shirah and Tom Bridgman, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Caption by Mike Carlowicz
Electric Sail- could be the Fastest man-made Device ever built
December 10, 2010
IKAROS would do well to watch its back, for the Japanese solar-sailing spacecraft may just have some competition that’s fast enough to catch up. The EU is funding a three-year project at the Finnish Meteorological Institute to build the fastest man-made device in the universe: an electric sail, or ESAIL, that researchers say could make Pluto in just five years’ time.
A Simulated Black Hole Event in the Large Hadron Collider
November 5, 2010
