Recently, the Aditya-L1 mission captured a solar flare ‘kernel’ in the lower solar atmosphere. What is a solar flare? Why has ...

Have you ever played with a magnet and stuck it in a sandy wash? It will pick up lots of black stuff. Some call it black sand; some might think ...

Contrary to previous assumptions, the Moon's passage through Earth's magnetic field, or "geotail," does not lead to lower plasma densities. Listen to Story Scientists from the Space Physics Laboratory ...

The moving metals in Earth's core create the planet's magnetic field. Our planet sits in a small corner of the Milky Way galaxy, 25,000 light-years from the galaxy's center. Our solar system lives ...

Magnetite, like the name implies, is magnetic. Other magnetic minerals include pyrrhotite and ilmenite. Lodestone is a name given to magnetite that has polarity. Really, all magnetite has polarity ...

Last May, as the strongest solar storm in decades swept through the Earth’s upper atmosphere ... year of frequent and intense auroras across Europe as the Sun’s magnetic poles flip – part of an ...

Fresh satellite data shows that sea ice at both the North and South Poles shrank to a combined extent of about ... Together, these conditions seem to be undoing some of the natural insulation that ...

These interactions can amplify the impact of the CMEs on Earth's magnetic field, sometimes creating geomagnetic storms. Nearly one-third of CMEs interact with other CMEs or the solar wind ...

DURING the last ascent of the balloon F.NM.S. (August 18, 1934), we had the opportunity of measuring with precision the intensity of cosmic rays at altitudes of about 12,000 m., 15,000 m.

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