Items tagged with sun

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Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 - 18:55:25 - Ehud Rattner Data from the Ulysses spacecraft, a joint NASA-European Space Agency mission, show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels... read more

ChroTel: A New Robotic Solar Telescope Friday, September 19th, 2008 - 10:29:35 - Anuradha Menon A recently built telescope on Tenerife will observe eruptive events in the solar chromosphere and help to gain physical insights into the underlying... read more

Sun Upgrades Desktop Virtual Machine Sunday, September 7th, 2008 - 10:00:44 - Anuradha Menon VirtualBox enables a developer to develop code on a Mac, a Windows, Linux or Solaris machine and then run it in a virtual machine that mimics its... read more

Theory of the Sun’s Role in Solar System Saturday, September 6th, 2008 - 17:43:35 - Anuradha Menon A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 years ago has puzzled scientists ever... read more

Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-like Star Saturday, July 26th, 2008 - 21:45:15 - Anuradha Menon A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days... read more

0.3% Of Sahara's Energy Could Power All EU Friday, July 25th, 2008 - 12:29:04 - Anuradha Menon The largest fully industrialized populous in the world could be entirely powered by a small fraction of solar desert energy, according to new plan... read more

Voyager 2 Finds Lopsided Solar System Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 - 18:47:52 - Ehud Rattner Hurtling through space 31 years after its launch, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back the most detailed view yet of the shock wave that marks the... read more

New Type of Aurora Spotted on Saturn Friday, June 20th, 2008 - 08:40:32 - Ehud Rattner A new type of aurora may exist on Saturn, creating a faint ring around one the planet's poles, a new study suggests. Debris from Saturn's moon... read more

Hidden Planet in Our Solar System? Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 - 18:53:49 - Iddo Genuth An icy, unknown world might lurk in the distant reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto, according to a new computer model. The hidden... read more

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