Tag Archive for 'Alfven wave'

An artist’s impression of a giant magnetar flare. Image credit: Universitat de València.

ASIM Detects Huge Pulsating Flare from Extragalactic Magnetar

Dec 27, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The giant gamma-ray flare event, designated GRB 2001415, was emitted by a powerful magnetar in NGC 253, an active starburst galaxy approximately 11 million...

This is an artistic impression of a red dwarf star’s magnetic interaction with its exoplanet. Image credit: Danielle Futselaar, Artsource.nl.

Terrestrial-Mass Exoplanet Found Orbiting Red Dwarf Gliese 1151

Feb 9, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Magnetic interactions between the newfound planet, designated Gliese 1151b, and its host star are the likely source of low-frequency radio emission recently...

This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the Sun. Image credit: NASA / SDO.

Alfven Waves: Solar Magnetic Waves Behave Differently than Previously Thought

Feb 8, 2019 by News Staff

A team of physicists at Northumbria University, UK, has found that magnetic waves in the corona of our Sun — its outermost layer of atmosphere —...

A view of the limb of the Sun. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Researchers Uncover Origins of Solar Spicules

Jun 26, 2017 by News Staff

A team of solar physicists from the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, University of Oslo and Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory...