solar wind
Huge Coronal Hole Is Sending Solar Wind Our Way
[/caption] An enormous triangular hole in the Sun's corona was captured earlier today by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, seen above…
Voyager 1 Has Outdistanced the Solar Wind
[/caption] The venerable Voyager spacecraft are truly going where no one has gone before. Voyager 1 has now reached a…
Moon’s Mini-Magnetosphere
Many objects in the solar system have strong magnetic fields which deflect the charged particles of the solar wind, creating…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – A Universe Free Of Charge?
[/caption] If there were equal amounts of matter and anti-matter in the universe, it would be easy to deduce that…
What is the Aurora Australis?
Aurora australis (also known as the southern lights, and southern polar lights) is the southern hemisphere counterpart to the aurora…
What is the Aurora Borealis?
[/caption] The aurora (plural aurorae) borealis has many other names: northern lights, northern polar lights, polar lights, and more. An…
NASA IBEX Spacecraft Detects Neutral Hydrogen Bouncing Off Moon
[/caption] NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon,…
Branson Wants to Fly Space Tourists into the Northern Lights
For his next big plan for the private space industry, Richard Branson is thinking up new ways to excite affluent…
SoHO Celebrates its 12th Birthday
On December 2nd, 1995 a large joint ESA and NASA mission was launched to gain an insight to the dynamics…