In a new study, published in the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Warwick researchers led an international effort to uncover some of the faintest debris in geosynchronous orbit ever observed, finding fragments as small as 5 centimeters (2 inches) and obtaining...
Plasma pinches: From pursuits of nuclear fusion to an attractive point source of accelerated protons for proton radiography. Go to Source
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Go to Source
Astronomers spend much of their time mapping the universe, but until now their results have been collected and archived in so many different ways that the data can’t talk to each other. Go to Source
Researchers are closer to unraveling a longstanding solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the sun’s tachocline layer of strong shearing motion—a region believed to be critical for creating the violent eruptions of high-energy particles and radiation...
