Title: Upheavals in the Ionosphere -- Tracking Down the Causes of Expansive Plasma Depletions (Video) Abstract: The ionized gas in the...
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Professor Robert L. Lysak, Uni. of Minnesota
March 26, 2015
Title: Alfvén Waves and Auroral Particle Acceleration (Video) Abstract: Electrodynamic coupling between the magnetosphere and ionosphere...
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Karel Schrijver
March 26, 2015
Title: The Sun's Magnetic Activity, Space Weather, and Societal Impacts (Video) Abstract: The variable conditions in geospace driven by the...
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Jim Burch, Space Science & Engineering, Southwest Research Institute
March 26, 2015
Title: "Solar Wind Interactions with the Earth and Comets" (Video) Abstract: In addition to being our home in space, the Earth’s...
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Paul A. Bernhardt, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory
March 25, 2015
Title: Plasma Globes for Compact Antennas, Illumination, and Holiday Ornaments (Video) Abstract: A new technique has been developed to...
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Eclectic Office
March 17, 2015
Ralph Gibson, a long-time member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, works at his desk in Wilder Hall. Gibson is known for having one of the most eclectic and interesting offices on campus. (Photo by Joshua Renaud ’17)...
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Simulating trajectories of interstellar atoms measured by the NASA/IBEX satellite
February 18, 2015
FACULTY CONTACT: Hans Mueller The heliosphere is a large structure in outer space, encompassing most of the solar system; it is defined by...
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Computer simulations of stellar winds interacting with the interstellar medium
February 18, 2015
Space observatories are finding more and more stars that lose some of their atmosphere in the form of a stellar wind (like our Sun’s solar...
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Characterizing the out-of-ecliptic solar wind
February 18, 2015
The focus of this project is the solar wind, a steady plasma stream of solar atmosphere lost by the Sun and blowing past the planets...
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Cas A Detectives
January 30, 2015
Cassiopeia A, a supernova that exploded 340 years ago, seems to have a bubbly interior. Prof. Rob Fesen and former student Dan Milisavljevic explain why.
