The researchers used a high-intensity infrared laser to generate and then image a “Weibel-like current” instability. Plasma, a super-hot mixture of charged particles, can experience ...

Caption Map of Equatorial Plasma Bubble (EPB) events across the Earth. Most bubbles occur over the Atlantic in a region called the ‘South Atlantic Anomaly’. Here high energy particles and ...

serving as cosmic highways that allow superheated plasma particles to escape the sun's magnetic grasp and launch outward at hypersonic speeds. "The energy content of a single picoflare jet that ...