Massive computer simulation detects cause of high-speed
electronics in space This finding could not only solve an
astrophysical puzzle, but also might lead to a better ability to
predict high-energy electron streams in space that could damage
satellites. February 27, 2012 A mysterious phenomenon detected
by space probes has finally been explained thanks to a massive
computer simulation that was able to precisely align with
details of the spacecraft observations. The finding could not
only solve an astrophysical puzzle, but also might lead to a
better ability to predict high-energy electron streams in space
that could damage satellites. Beautiful aurora in Yukon
Territory, Canada. Robert Postma Jan Egedal from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge had initially
proposed a theory to explain this large-scale acceleration of
electrons in Earth’s magnetotail — a vast and intense magnetic
field swept outward from Earth by the solar wind. Until the new
data was obtained from the computer simulation,