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Chinese scientists use gigantic telescope to study solar wind – Big News Network

BEIJING June 1 Xinhua — With the help of the world largest radio telescope Chinese scientists have made progress on the observation of interplanetary scint

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BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) — With the help of the world’s largest radio telescope, Chinese scientists have made progress on the observation of interplanetary scintillation, a phenomenon that can be used to study space weather.
The radio signal from a distant compact radio source is scattered by the solar wind, and consequently, a random diffraction pattern is observed on Earth. This phenomenon is known as interplanetary scintillation (IPS) and ground-based IPS observations in turn can help infer…

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