It looks like the same mechanism that breaks up airplane contrails might be at play in forming the clumps of hydrogen gas that ring the remnant of supernova 1987A.
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Two satellites could join NASA’s fleet studying the Sun and its impacts on Earth’s magnetic field.
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Better forecasting could protect astronauts and instruments from solar eruptions that release damaging, high-energy particles.
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Massive storms have appeared as “Great White Spots” on Saturn every 20 to 30 years since 1876. The impacts of those older storms have lasted in Saturn’s atmosphere for centuries.
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NASA undertakes a comprehensive look at a critical atmospheric buffer between us and the sun, powered in part by University of Michigan researchers and alumni.
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University of Michigan researchers were able to accurately predict when and where the probe would cross an important barrier in the sun’s atmosphere.
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Ocean wind tracker is finding new uses for inland studies.
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U-Michigan researchers play lead roles in national effort funded by NSF, NASA.
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Magnetic flux findings suggest “profound consequences for basic solar processes.”
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University of Michigan researchers’ work on NASA and European Space Agency projects that have been altered by COVID-19.
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