solar wind – Charm

Smile spacecraft (gold) fixed to a Vega-C rocket adaptor (black cone) in Kourou, French Guiana. (AFP)

European-Chinese spacecraft SMILE sent on solar wind exploration mission

Cs news3 months ago05 mins

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft blasted off into orbit Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the Sun slam into Earth’s magnetic shield. Smile spacecraft (gold) fixed to a Vega-C rocket adaptor (black cone) in Kourou, French Guiana. (AFP) Particularly fierce solar storms can knock out satellites,…

Is it or isn’t it a rare pink aurora above Kai Tak? Hongkongers have their say

Cs news1 year ago02 mins

Hongkongers looking at the morning sky on Thursday may have thought they were witnessing a rare pink aurora – but it was most likely to be light pollution. A large swathe of the sky above Kai Tak Stadium glowed pink in the early hours, but the Observatory said it was not linked to a geomagnetic…