Future Studies

Sep 18, 2017 Cassini’s data will be analyzed for years to come. The Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere on Friday, September 16, 2017. Since its original orbital insertion in 2004, it found hurricanes surging through Saturn’s atmosphere, along with lightning storms lasting for years at a time. Most…

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Electric Plasmoids

Sep 15, 2017 Electrical discharges in plasma are a better model for solar activity than the models derived from gravity and turbulence. About 100 years ago, Kristian Birkeland led the Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition to a mountain inside the arctic circle, where he and his colleagues discovered that Earth’s aurorae…

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Top 10 Reasons the Universe is Electric: #2 Filaments in Space | Space News

Electric currents flowing through space plasmas can be recognized through their distinct filamentary shape. With remarkable advances in space telescopes, we see today in unprecedented detail filamentary structures that pervade the visible universe at all scales. The appearances of these unique structures have proved puzzling far more often than not…

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