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Helping to uncover how the solar wind gets its energy

Since the 1960s, astronomers have wondered how the Sun’s supersonic “solar wind,” a stream of energetic particles that flows out into the Solar System, continues to receive energy once it leaves the Sun. Now, thanks to a fortunate line up of two spacecraft currently in space studying the Sun, they may have discovered the answer.

Bec Nicholson, Fine Art graduate from Northumbria University, is pictured with some of her work on display.

Fine Art graduates receive coveted award

Two Fine Art graduates from Northumbria University have been awarded the 2024 New Graduate Award, presented in collaboration with Middlesbrough Art Week.

School of Law, Northumbria University

Advisory public appointment for Law academic

Northumbria Law School academic Professor Marion Oswald MBE has been appointed by the Home Office to the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), an advisory non-departmental public body.

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