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Lab-made "Mini-Sun" sheds light on the real thing

New Atlas - Tue 30 Jul 19

When scientists need to learn about something, recreating it in the lab is often one of the best ways – and now that even applies to the Sun itself. Physicists from the University of ...

Big Red Ball gives clues to the sun’s wind

Cosmos Magazine - Mon 29 Jul 19

US researchers gain insight into the largest magnetic field in the solar system. Barry Keily reports.

In a first, physicists re-created the sun’s spiraling solar wind in a lab

ScienceNews - Mon 29 Jul 19

Some of the sun’s fundamental physics have been re-created with plasma inside a vacuum chamber

Researchers recreate the sun's solar wind and plasma 'burps' on Earth

Phys.org - Mon 29 Jul 19

The sun's solar wind affects nearly everything in the solar system. It can disrupt the function of Earth's satellites and creates the lights of the auroras.

Researchers recreate the sun's solar wind and plasma "burps" on Earth, SpaceDaily - Fri 2 Aug 19
Researchers recreate the sun's solar wind and plasma 'burps' on Earth, Eurekalert - Mon 29 Jul 19
Researchers recreate the sun's solar wind and plasma "burps" on Earth, Newswise - Mon 29 Jul 19

Sun's scorching hot, spiraling wind re-created in a lab

FOXNews - Thu 1 Aug 19

Scientists have replicated mini gusts of solar wind in the lab as a way to potentially unravel some of the Sun's mysteries.

Scientists Just Built a Mini-Sun in a Lab That Emits 'Plasma Burps'

SPACE.com - Thu 1 Aug 19

Scientists built a miniature sun in the lab in order to gain more insight into solar physics.

Scientists Create Miniature Sun in Wisconsin

Extremetech - Wed 31 Jul 19

To study the star up close, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison built a miniature sun. They call it the Big Red Ball (BRB), and it could help ...

Scientists build a 'mini-sun' at a university campus to study solar wind - CNET

CNET Cutting Edge - Tue 30 Jul 19

It's always sunny in Wisconsin.

Physicists Made a Hot Plasma Doughnut to Study Solar Wind

Wired Science Blogs - Mon 29 Jul 19

Temperatures inside the Big Red Ball apparatus reached more than 150,000 degrees.

Airbus brings a SMILE to ESA

SpaceDaily - Wed 31 Jul 19

Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency to build the European component of the SMILE satellite (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer). ...

Sun's solar wind and plasma 'burps' created on Earth

ScienceDaily - Mon 29 Jul 19

A new study by physicists mimicked solar winds in the lab, confirming how they develop and providing an Earth-bound model for the future study of solar physics.