Parker Solar Probe might help us to know more about the Sun, sooner than expected. The Parker Solar Probe project was announced in 2009 and totaled to $1.5 billion. Named after Eugene Parker, a physicist at the University of Chicago, the spacecraft was the first ever by NASA to be named after a living human…
The Quenching process of galaxies may vary from one to another. A Galaxy Cluster, or cluster of galaxies, is a structure that consists of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together by gravity with typical masses ranging from 1014 to 1015 solar masses. Keeping the definition in mind, Galaxy clusters are…
Scientists make some outstanding progress through a latest Lower Hybrid Current Drive experiment. In a breakthrough at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), researchers demonstrated how to overcome barriers to steady-state tokamak operation using microwaves. Seung Gyou Baek led a team of researchers which experimented with a Lower Hybrid Current Drive (LHCD) on MIT’s Alcator…
Scientists want to create a “star in a jar” by discovering an efficient way of eliminating instabilities in fusion plasma. Replication of the physical process, fusion, that occurs naturally in stars has been investigated on Earth for decades. Scientists created Tokamak in an attempt to replicate the conditions found inside the Sun, on Earth. Confined…
Humanity is all set to touch the Sun for the first time ever through a spacecraft of NASA. A stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun (corona) is known as a Solar Wind. The particles (protons, electrons, and alpha particles) of this wind escape from the gravitational field of the…
We might get electricity from Nuclear Fusion much earlier than we anticipated. Nuclear Fusion refers to a reaction where two or more nuclei fuse into each other to produce one or more atomic nuclei and subatomic particles like protons. Massive amounts of energy are released during this process and this accounts for the difference in…
Sun experiences plasma precipitation in form of mist as well as vicious showers. The sun of our solar system is quite consistent in comparison to some other stars of the Milky Way. The size and brightness of some of these stars vary so abruptly that it ends up in a vicious explosion. Our sun is…
Mankind is one step ahead in achieving the nuclear fusion. Considering this a source of the future, nuclear fusion can provide an unlimited amount of energy without pollution, through a process similar to that taking place inside the Sun. Magnetic field, intense pressure and heat is needed for the cores of the lighter chemical elements…