Notes of concern: ‘chorus waves’ found by China-led study sound alarms for space travel
Peculiar electromagnetic bursts of energy known as “chorus waves” have been detected far from our planet for the first time by a China-led team of scientists, whose findings have raised new concerns about the risks for spacecraft and astronauts. The fluctuations originated about 165,000km (100,000 miles) from Earth – three times as far as any…