They saw that the dynamic pressure of the solar wind increased by a factor of 20, meaning that it dramatically compressed the magnetosphere of Uranus. They then looked at eight months of solar wind ...

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Like a supersonic jet being blasted with high-speed winds, Earth is constantly being bombarded by a stream of charged particles from the sun known as solar wind. Just like wind around a jet or ...

Therefore, the interpretation of Uranus’s magnetosphere as being extreme may simply be a product of a flyby that occurred ...

Solar wind hit Uranus and dramatically compressed its magnetosphere, likely pushing plasma out of it. But the solar wind also made Uranus’ magnetosphere more dynamic by feeding it with electrons ...

The new paper suggests that high concentrations of solar wind may have played a significant role in distorting the planet’s magnetosphere. This, the researchers suggest, could have created an ...

How can the solar wind influence Jupiter’s massive magnetic field? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

The event compressed the planet's magnetosphere, they found ... "Owing to the variation of the solar wind at Uranus, we suggest that there may be two magnetospheric cycles during solar minimum ...

Scientists at the University of Reading have discovered a solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere – a protective bubble created by a planet's magnetic field.

However, according to the research, Uranus' magnetosphere appears to have been unusually compressed by solar wind during the precise moments Voyager 2 was flying past, skewing our measurements of ...

Auroras are caused by the interaction of the solar wind (a stream of hot magnetized gas called plasma) with the magnetosphere (the region of space around Earth in which our planet’s magnetic ...