Studying a star that seems to have paused its magnetic activity cycles could provide insight into the Maunder Minimum, a 70-year period when sunspots became exceedingly rare
Read article: Astronomers see star enter a ‘Maunder Minimum’ for the first time
In this podcast we talk about radiotherapy, stellar physics and quantum businesses
Read article: Neutron capture destroys tumours from the inside, dead stars are born again, commercializing quantum sensors
Combining scintillation and Cherenkov detectors could shed light on fusion in the Sun
Read article: New technique makes directional measurements of low-energy solar neutrinos
We chat about curved waveguide technology and a mysterious stellar system
Read article: Closest black hole is really a vampire star, augmented reality comes to prescription eyeglasses
New analyses could shed more light on the physics of the solar wind
Read article: Whistler waves disappear close to the Sun
Why is the Sun’s outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface?
Read article: Liquid metal experiment sheds light on solar corona conundrum
Images of the dramatic end to a red supergiant’s life could transform our understanding of how massive stars spend their last few months and days
Read article: Astronomers watch the death of a red supergiant in real time
White dwarf breaks rotation speed record
Read article: Magnetic propeller star flings plasma into the cosmos
Analysis of an ancient asteroid suggests that Earth may have received a large amount of its water from extraterrestrial dust grains interacting with the solar wind
Read article: Did the solar wind create Earth’s water?
Margaret Harris examines the circumstances that shaped the career of 1993 physics Nobel laureate Russell Hulse
Read article: Life beyond the Nobel: Russell Hulse’s path from binary pulsar discoverer to plasma physicist
