Blazars are active galaxies that emit narrow jets of ionised matter from their centres, aimed towards Earth. Depending on ...
When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel ... more like a miniature jet engine than anything that had come before it. Optimizations would need to be made ...
In this process, a jet of plasma or ionized gas is ejected at high speeds, which melts and subsequently removes unwanted parts of materials from electrically conductive workpieces such as metals.
"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...
where plasma is held in a torus by an intense magnetic field and heated until the hydrogen nuclei fuse. Confinement fusion has been shown by JET to produce fusion power of 15 MW for several seconds.
The M87 galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole that has a plasma jet that is nearly 3000 light years long. In addition, ...