Cassini, Voyager missions suggest new picture of Sun's interaction with galaxy
New data from NASA's Cassini mission, combined with measurements from the two Voyager spacecraft and NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, suggests that our sun and planets are surrounded by...
View ArticleResearchers perform first basic-physics simulation of the impact of recycled...
Turbulence, the violently unruly disturbance of plasma, can prevent plasma from growing hot enough to fuel fusion reactions. Long a puzzling concern of researchers has been the impact on turbulence of...
View ArticleProperties of a massive galaxy 800 million years after the Big Bang
Searches for the most distant galaxies have now probed earlier than the first billion years in the history of the universe, early enough to start seeing the primary effects of the first stars: the...
View ArticleIons in the spotlight
The results of a research group from the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg has been given a special place in Nature Photonics. An accompanying "News & Views" article in the print...
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