Space Research

What happens with the poles?

As a part of the International Year of Planet Earth the International Heliophysical Year started the first day of March. The project will focus on the interaction between the Earth’s atmosphere and outflow from the Sun and interstellar sources.

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Neutrino Astronomy – Looking for ghost particles

Nearly unaffected by all hindrances, billions of neutrinos reach the earth every second. They do not only reach us, and the earth, they also pass through us unaffectedly, even through the core of the globe, and ultimately come out on the other side and continue the travel through space. Neutrinos are extremely small elementary particles that have one very particular feature: a strong antipathy for interaction with other matter, and without electrical charge.

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Ten years of SOHO

SOHO is one of the most successful space missions in history and has provided scientists and the public with a wealth of spectacular images and scientific data. It has revolutionized our understanding of the Sun, solar eruptions and of space weather effects.

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Swedish Institute of Space Physics – Uppsala

With Cluster II’s four satellites in space for the forth year in a row, Cassini in orbit around Saturn, Rosetta on its way to the Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and Smart-1 closer and closer to the Moon, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala receives large amounts of scientific data every day.

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