Physicist helps explain characteristics of swirling solar wind
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - 08:50
in Astronomy & Space
Just a few hundred yards from the house where Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) lived in Arcetri for the last nine years of his life, the University of Delaware's William Matthaeus is working to further the world's understanding of the heliosphere – the big bubble of magnetism that holds the solar system together – and especially its turbulent nature.