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Space Science & Space Physics
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Editors' Highlights 23 December 2020

The Cosmic Timeline of Heliophysics

Thom Moore began his career after the start of the space age. This is the story of how he converted his interests in evolution, philosophy, and psychology and writing into the study of heliophysics.
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Space Science & Space Physics
Artist’s conception of the motion of charged particles in Earth’s magnetosphere

Research Spotlight 16 December 2020

A New Approach to Characterizing Space Plasmas

When plasma particle velocity distributions have multiple, distinct parts, treating each as a separate beam may yield more intuitive results.
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Space Science & Space Physics
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Research Spotlight 12 October 2020

Terrestrial Radio Signals May Suppress High-Energy Electrons

Naval radio signals may cause the formation of a barrier observed during geomagnetic storms that is seemingly impenetrable by relativistic electrons.
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Space Science & Space Physics
A 2D drawing of Jupiter’s magnetosphere in the noon-midnight meridional plane

Editors' Highlights 27 August 2020

A Whistle Here, There, and Everywhere on the Giant Planet

NASA’s Juno spacecraft is “hearing whistles” all over the place on Jupiter, a type of natural plasma waves called whistlers that are sometimes associated with atmospheric lightning.
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Space Science & Space Physics
Illustration of “expanding,” “contracting,” and “stable‐propagating” magnetic dip structures

Editors' Highlights 28 July 2020

Upstream Propagating Magnetic Dips in the Magnetosheath

The previous consensus that magnetic dips in the magnetosheath can be attributed to non-propagating mirror waves is now shown to be oversimplified.
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News 16 April 2020

Record-Setting Winds on a Nearby Brown Dwarf

Infrared and radio observations reveal zonal winds moving faster than 2,000 kilometers per hour on a “failed star” in our celestial neighborhood.
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Space Science & Space Physics
Illustration of how “electron wings” form around a spacecraft traveling through a plasma

Research Spotlight 26 February 2020

“Electron Wings” Can Interfere with Spacecraft Measurements

Spacecraft sometimes produce a form of electrical self-interference as they zip through plasmas in space—a previously unreported effect that may be lurking in old data sets.
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Space Science & Space Physics
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News 28 January 2020

Students Launch Balloon-Borne Payloads into Thunderstorms

The High Energy Lightning Emission Network project hopes to detect elusive bursts of light and particles called terrestrial gamma ray flashes.
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Space Science & Space Physics
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Tribute 4 December 2019

Richard Mansergh Thorne (1942–2019)

A pioneering space plasma physicist who led the way in understanding how complex wave-particle interactions control Earth’s radiation belts and low-level auroral light emissions.
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News 12 November 2019

Wanted for Grand Theft Galaxy: The Milky Way

Several dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way were likely stolen from the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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