University of Sydney undergraduate student Cleo Loi has proven that massive, invisible plasma tubes move about in Earth’s skies above.
Theorized by scientists for more than 60 years, the existence of the tubular plasma structures has never been proven until now. The research team confirmed the existence of the funnels by creatively using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope to see large patches of the sky in 3D.
“This is like turning the telescope into a pair of eyes, and by that we were able to probe the 3D nature of these structures and watch them move around,” Loi, lead author on the research, said in a press release. The MWA's rapid snapshot capabilities were also exploited to capture real-time motions of the plasma.
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Theorized by scientists for more than 60 years, the existence of the tubular plasma structures has never been proven until now. The research team confirmed the existence of the funnels by creatively using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope to see large patches of the sky in 3D.
“This is like turning the telescope into a pair of eyes, and by that we were able to probe the 3D nature of these structures and watch them move around,” Loi, lead author on the research, said in a press release. The MWA's rapid snapshot capabilities were also exploited to capture real-time motions of the plasma.
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