New Scientist article 14 June 2011 by David Shiga This single STEREO image (June 27, 2011) in extreme UV light from the Ahead spacecraft contains three major, magnetic solar features, all clearly identifiable: a coronal hole, an active region, and a long filament.
The new image reveals a vast nebula around the famous supergiant star. This picture of the dramatic nebula around the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse was created from images taken with the VISIR infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). This structure, resembling flames emanating from the star, forms because the behemoth is shedding …
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This article, from the NASA news service, is a further item related to the topic of the impact of the Sun on Earth addressed in the ‘Astronomy news’ section of the newsletter. It is followed by a commentary on this issue from Steve Kleyn.
This is reconstructed landscape showing the Shalbatana Lake on Mars as it may have looked roughly 3,4 billion years ago. Data used in reconstruction are from Nasa and the European Space Agency. Image credit: G Di Achille/University of Colorado Researchers have discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, …
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11:18 04 September 2006 by Maggie McKee (Reproduced here by kind permission of New Scientist magazine) If successful scientific theories can be thought of as cures for stubborn problems, quantum physics was the wonder drug of the 20th century. It successfully explained phenomena such as radioactivity and antimatter, and no other theory can match its …
