BOZEMAN — Montana State University physicist Dana Longcope was awarded the National Academy of Science’s Arctowski Medal last week. The medal, given every other year, is a recognition of significant
Prominent Scientists Predict Unusually Strong Solar Cycle, Contradicting Previous Expert Forecast
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NCAR scientists believe otherwise, based on their solar clock
NCAR s findings have received approval from the National Science Foundation
A team led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has predicted that a new sunspot cycle could be one of the strongest on record.
According to a report published in Solar Physics, the team which includes scientists from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England predicts that Sunspot Cycle 25 will have a maximum sunspot number of somewhere between 210 and 260, putting it at the very top of cycles ever observed.
Juventas CubeSat coming in for asteroid landing (Credit: ESA – Science Office)
ELCHE, Spain (EMXYS PR) EMXYS and the Royal Observatory of Belgium have been selected by the European Space Agency to provide a gravimeter for the Juventas spacecraft that will land on asteroid Dimorphos as part of the European Space Agency’s planetary defence programme.
EMXYS and the Royal Observatory of Belgium will provide the GRASS instrument that will make measurements on the gravity field of the asteroid Dimorphos. The gravimeter is part of the Juventas Cubesat, manufactured by GomSpace Luxemburg, that will land on the asteroid in 2027, after travelling onboard the ESA’s Hera spacecraft to its vicinity. The GRASS will be the first dedicated extraterrestrial gravimeter since the Apollo era and the first ever on an asteroid.
Advanced optics capture structures as small as 20 kilometers on the surface of the sun
The sunspot image taken by NSF s Inouye Solar Telescope s Wave Front Correction context viewer.
December 9, 2020
The world s largest solar observatory, the U.S. National Science Foundation s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, has released its first image of a sunspot. Although the telescope is still in the final phases of completion, the image is an indication of how the telescope s advanced optics and 4-meter primary mirror will give scientists the best view of the sun from Earth throughout the next solar cycle.
The sunspot image accompanies a new paper by Thomas Rimmele and his team. Rimmele is the associate director at NSF s National Solar Observatory, the organization responsible for building and operating the Inouye Solar Telescope. The sunspot was captured by the Inouye Solar Telescope on January 28, 2020 and is not the same sunspot currently visible to the naked eye.
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