The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak EASP in China managed to reach a plasma temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius, and it was maintained for 101 seconds. This is five times more than the last record, writes the website of the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP). Moreover, on the […]
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Voyager 1 heard “light rain noise” 23 billion km from Earth: audio from deep space
Launched 44 years ago, the Voyager 1 probe since August 2012 is no longer flying in the heliosphere of the solar system. With the distance from the Sun, solar disturbances at different frequencies subsided, which allowed the apparatus to register a barely noticeable but steady “hum” of extremely rarefied ionized interstellar gas. Writes about this […]