A new superhighway network running through the Solar System has been discovered by astronomers, and it could speed up space travel in the future. Researchers from the University of California San Diego looked at the orbits of bodies in our Solar System and computed how they fit together and interacted. The highways allow space rocks … Read more
World’s largest solar telescope in Hawaii releases its first image of 10,000-mile wide sunspot that could fit the entire Earth inside The Inouye Solar Telescope captured its first image of a sunspot The image achieved a spatial resolution about 2.5 times higher than others The sunspot measures 10,000 miles across and its center is is 7,500F … Read more
Giant solar power station in SPACE could generate energy for Britain: Scientists could build a multi-billion pound satellite to match output of a nuclear plant… and there’s no need to worry about cloudy weather The government has ordered research into a multi-billion pound solar satellite British prototype called CASSIOPeiA would be a mile long and … Read more
Solar power stations in space that beam ’emission-free electricity’ down to Earth could soon be a reality thanks to a UK government funded project. Above the Earth there are no clouds and no day or night that could obstruct the sun’s ray – making a space solar station a constant zero carbon power source. The … Read more
A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away! Our solar system was formed in less than 200,000 years – nearly half the time humans have been walking the Earth, study reveals By Dan Avery For Dailymail.com Published: 23:30 GMT, 13 November 2020 | Updated: 23:30 GMT, 13 November 2020 Our solar system … Read more
Even if you’re a climate change denier, in an investment environment where many dividends are on shaky ground and bond yields are very low, solar funds provide a very attractive source of income. The fund with the highest dividend yield among the solar sector is NextEnergy Solar Fund, which also says it is the lowest-risk … Read more
The Moon’s once powerful magnetic field helped shield Earth and its developing atmosphere from powerful solar storms 4 billion years ago, a new study claims. Researchers led by James Green, NASA’s chief scientist, created computer models simulating the protective impact the Moon once had over Earth. The combined magnetic fields of both the Moon and … Read more
Earth is the only planet we know that has sentient life – but astronomers have found two dozen exoplanets that may have better conditions for life than our home world. A team led by Washington State University identified 24 ‘superhabitable’ planets out of more than 4,500 known exoplanets that could be a good candidate for … Read more
Amazon has filled the roof of a massive two million square foot fulfilment centre in Kent with a whopping 11,500 with solar panels as part of a pledge to move to renewable energy by 2025. With an annual production of around 2,700 megawatt hours – or a capacity of 4.83 megawatts – the Amazon ‘solar … Read more
Solar storm forecasting system developed by ‘citizen-scientists’ could help prevent damage to satellites and power grids and protect astronauts from harmful radiation Members of the public helped to analyse so-called coronal mass ejections These are releases of charged particles and magnetic field from the Sun From the analysis, the team were able to devise new … Read more