Since the dawn of NASA’s Apollo program, UCLA has been deeply involved in space exploration. Since 1963, eight Bruins have flown into space. Today, UCLA scientists are helping lay the path to the stars, creating a new constellation of Bruin brilliance.
UCLA researchers collaborated with NASA and the Space Science Institute to develop a web app that translates data from space into audible sound. The app, called Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas, allows the public to listen to and identify patterns in satellite data to help researchers improve space weather forecasting.
Though not as damaging as extreme space weather events, showers of plasma jets hit Earth’s magnetic shield every day yet we're only beginning to understand their effects.