This photo was taken on a moonless night, allowing the aurora to shine without competition. The luminous greens silhouette a dark mountain range and meadow on the ground.
“Our understanding of instabilities—when they grow, how they grow—is important to making fusion work.”
For plasma in fusion reactors, turbulence might be more than a pesky thing to control, a new study suggests.
Missed the auroras? These photographers have got you covered.
The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for researchers studying fusion.
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a geomagnetic storm watch for October 16 as several coronal mass ejections barrel toward Earth.
Using a combination of physics and machine learning, the researchers predicted how the plasma inside a tokamak reactor would behave given a set of initial conditions.
