ULYSSES REVEALS GLOBAL SOLAR WIND PLASMA OUTPUT AT 50-YEAR LOW

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 23, 2008 ;     616 words ......reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels...million mile-per-hour solar wind inflates a protective...McComas, Ulysses' solar wind instrument principal...data indicate the solar wind's global pressure...space age." The sun's solar wind plasma is ...

Solar wind output at a 50 year low, indicates new data

The Hindustan Times;  September 24, 2008 ;     411 words ......system where the solar wind's strength is...portion of the cosmic rays outside the galaxy...data indicate the solar wind's global pressure...California, "Galactic cosmic rays carry with them...galaxy." "With the solar wind at an all-time...more galactic ...

In flux: a strange interaction between cosmic rays and clouds may help to...

The Economist (US);  April 11, 1998 ;     787 words ......During a short cycle the solar wind (a breeze of electrically...than normal. And when the solar wind is stronger, it is better...from outer space known as cosmic rays. So another researcher at...the earth's temperature, cosmic rays could be part of the chain...cover ...

Bubbling up; Climate change.(Testing whether cosmic rays form clouds)

The Economist (US);  October 28, 2006 ;     656 words ......experiment to test the role of cosmic rays in global warming SIR...the solar system. These cosmic rays, as they are called...particles, including cosmic rays, they used a device called...If it is correct, then cosmic rays may create clouds with...neighbours are ...

solar wind

A Dictionary of Weather;    STORM DUNLOP;   109 words ...solar wind The stream of charged particles from the Sun's corona...which may reach 750 km s −1 . The interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's geomagnetic field gives rise to the magnetosphere . When the solar wind is highly active, the flux of cosmic rays is ...

Cosmic rays from the solar system. (Astronomy).(Brief Article)

Science News;  November 9, 2002 ;     260 words ......source of some of the cosmic rays that bombard Earth, planetary...composition of certain cosmic rays that suggests they originate...These so-called anomalous cosmic rays are energetic charged...one-hundredth the energy of cosmic rays from the far reaches...difficulty ...

New theory links climate change to cosmic rays.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 30, 1998 ;   Witze, Alexandra;   449 words ......links climate change to cosmic rays, high-energy particles...the sun's brightness. Cosmic rays may be another extraterrestrial...He believes that the solar wind, a wave of charged particles...the sun, interacts with cosmic rays as they approach Earth...cosmic ...

SOLAR WIND SLOWED BY HELIUM, RESEARCHERS SUGGEST

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 16, 2007 ;     783 words ......helium may be the drag that slows the solar wind in its million-mile-per-hour rush across the cosmos. And because the ordinary solar wind just can't pull hard enough, the helium...biggest near-Earth disturbances caused by solar wind. Those are the principal findings of...

Scientists worry as 'solar wind' slows.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 25, 2008 ;     124 words ......The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The slowing of the solar wind is of concern to scientists. Data from the Ulysses spacecraft has shown that the solar wind speed, usually about 400 kilometres per second, has slowed...maintenance of the natural shield around the solar system. More cosmic ...

Voyager 2 spacecraft makes first direct observations of the solar wind...

The Hindustan Times;  July 3, 2008 ;     346 words ......direct observations of the solar wind termination shock. At the termination shock, the solar wind, which continuously expands...role in the acceleration of cosmic rays, which are very energetic...Earth. The most energetic cosmic rays, which are potentially ...

SOHO SPACECRAFT DETECTS SOURCE OF HIGH-SPEED SOLAR "WIND"

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  February 4, 1999 ;   INDSTRY GROUP 99;   728 words ......cracks in a dam. Called the high-speed solar wind, this gas flows out at two million miles...spacecraft. The nature and origin of the solar wind is one of the main mysteries SOHO was...solve. The search for the source of the solar wind has been like the hunt for the source...

Birth zone shrinks for top cosmic rays.(Brief Article)

Science News;  August 15, 1998 ;   Weiss, Peter;   549 words ...When cosmic rays, the universe's most energetic particles...pondered where and how the strongest cosmic rays acquire millions of times the energy...stretching across all of space. If cosmic rays come from the farthest reaches of the...

Herbert S. Bridge, 76; physicist, built tool to help map solar wind

The Boston Globe;  September 2, 1995 ;   Tom Long, Globe Staff;   337 words ......played a key role in mapping the solar wind, died of coronary artery disease...a speed of 200,000 m.p.h., the solar wind flows around Earth like a river...nuclear science, where he studied cosmic rays. He was the leader of a group of...instrument for the study of the solar ...

Satellite makes solar wind count. (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory...

Science News;  March 1, 1997 ;   Wu, Corinne;   326 words ......electrically charged particles in the solar wind spiral outward from the sun's corona...counts and evaluates particles in the solar wind. Scientists recognized some of the chemical...previous satellite observations of the solar wind, but CELIAS also detected many that had...

Mystery of Solar Wind Solved

AP Online;  July 8, 1999 ;   PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer;   582 words ......Writer AP Online 07-08-1999 Mystery of Solar Wind Solved WASHINGTON (AP) -- Particles streaming...high speed flow from the sun, called the solar wind, has been a mystery to scientists for...researchers said Thursday, by showing that the solar wind's speed is boosted by magnetic ...