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Tuesday, 11 February 2020

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Erfolgreicher Raketenstart: Die Raumsonde "Solar Orbiter" hebt von Cape Canaveral ab. Foto: ESA

Erfolgreicher Raketenstart: Die Raumsonde "Solar Orbiter" hebt von Cape Canaveral ab. Foto: ESA

Die Raumsonde "Solar Orbiter" ist in Richtung Sonne abgehoben, mit Software der Uni Graz an Bord

Wie entstehen Sonneneruptionen und wie wirken sie sich auf die Erde aus? Wodurch wird der Sonnenfleckenzyklus angetrieben? Wie erzeugt und verändert die Sonne die riesige Plasmablase, in die unser Planetensystem eingebettet ist? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich Astrid Veronig von Institut für Physik der Universität Graz, und auf diese Fragen soll die ESA-Raumsonde "Solar Orbiter" Antworten liefern. "Sie hat zehn wissenschaftliche Instrumente an Bord, die das Verständnis unseres Zentralsterns revolutionieren werden", ist die Astrophysikerin überzeugt. In den nächsten Monaten sollen diese Geräte noach und nach in Betrieb genommen werden.

Die Universität Graz ist an Entwicklung und Betrieb des Röntgenteleskops STIX auf der Sonde beteiligt, Veronig hatte die wissenschaftliche Leitung der Software-Entwicklung über. Den Start des "Solar Orbiter" hat sie mit ihrem Team in Cape Canaveral mitverfolgt.

Video der European Space Agency (ESA) vom Raketenstart

created by Dagmar Eklaude

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Astrophysicist Isabell Piantschitsch receives Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship

Astrophysicist Isabell Piantschitsch from the University of Graz has been awarded the prestigious and interdisciplinary CINET Grant for Neuroscience and the Humanities by the Tatiana Foundation in Spain. As part of this fellowship, she will begin work in January 2026 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) on her research project titled "Causality and Epistemic Opacity in Deep Neural Networks."

Atmospheric Rivers

"Atmospheric Rivers” (ARs) transport huge amounts of water vapor from the tropics to mid and high latitudes. When they hit land, extreme precipitation often occurs. Even a medium-sized example transports twice as much water as the Amazon River. The illustration shows such an example in the Pacific, but also an extreme example in the Atlantic, which caused severe devastation in Great Britain as storm “Desmond” and then hit Norway as storm “Synne”.

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