The suns electromagnetic environment creates solar filaments, the most recent sun filament is over 500,000 miles in length or over 60 planet Earths in a line. The solar material (plasma – electrically charged gas) is colder than the surrounding corona material. The ending of the solar filament phenomena can trigger a huge magnetic event. Filaments …
Cometary globules are structures of interstellar gas and dust in space that appear to look like comets, with flowing tails away from another object. Energetic ultraviolet light from nearby hot stars has molded the globules and ionized their bright rims. The globules also stream away from the Vela supernova remnant which may have influenced their …
Why does the solar wind stay relatively hot in the very cold of deep space? One big mystery is the question of what keeps the solar wind heated. One would think that the solar wind would cool down as it expands and travels away from the sun, but it remains hotter than expected. Some intrinsic …
Does comet 67P have a Dusty Plasma Environment? Is one of the questions being investigated at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. It has been long debated if dusty plasmas (that exhibit collective behavior) exist near comets. This talk examines some basic scaling laws and concludes that in the vicinity of the nucleus of …
The Sun’s plasma storms or Coronal Mass Ejections (CME’s) are spectacular events. The Sun, according to science, consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields and is powered by a thermonuclear fusion. For some unknown reason the Sun suddenly produces these amazing solar plasma storms, producing and accelerating away, at one million miles per hour, …