Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
NASA's Voyager mission beamed back unprecedented views. It also sent back some mysteries. One of these came in 1986, when the ...
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time
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Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by
A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.
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Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries
They concluded that the moons must be inert with no ongoing activity. So why was no plasma observed, and what was happening ...
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‘Hawking radiation’ that may be erasing black holes could reveal new physics
Scientists are now claiming that primordial black holes may be heating up and exploding throughout the universe. Detection of ...
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To Make Nuclear Fusion a Reliable Energy Source, We Will Need Heat-and Radiation-Resilient Materials
A fusion experiment ran so hot that the wall materials facing the plasma retained defects.
Data from decades old mission solves Uranus mysteries
NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...
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Nuclear fusion energy requires heat- and radiation-resilient materials to be reliable, says nuclear engineer
The plasma needs to stay extremely hot—over ... change when they are exposed to extreme heat and lots of particle radiation. As they get irradiated, defects can form and grow in these materials ...
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Berkeley startup wins government award to develop radiation and lead poisoning treatment
Treating radiation poisoning is harder. Lead is a single element, but there’s a whole suite of elements with radioactive ...
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