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Understanding particle's space travel
Before the discovery of dark matter, the prevailing popular understanding of Space content is that of celestial bodies (planets, stars..etc) floating in 'void' and emitting particles and waves ...
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Predicting solar storms?
Quote from BBC "A strong solar storm is expected to hit Earth shortly, and experts warn it could disrupt power grids, satellite navigation and plane routes."
How is it that we are aware of a massive ...
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What is a Hot Flow Anomaly, and can we see the terrestrial ones?
I just saw the Weather Channel discussing "solar flares on Venus"... Not getting into the horrid scientific illiteracy of today's media, I finally managed to dig up a little info as to what it was ...
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What is the Correlation Between Solar Wind Velocity/Density and Sunspot Count?
We have the Advanced Composition Exporer (ACE), which orbits in the L1 libration point as a source for solar wind velocity and density (particles/cm^3) data. Typically, at a velocity in the range of ...
