Cosmic cinema: astronomers make real time, 3 D movies of plasma tubes drifting overhead

By creatively using a radio telescope to see in 3D, astronomers have detected the existence of tubular plasma structures in the inner layers of the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth. For over 60 years, scientists believed these structures existed but by imaging them for the first time, weve provided visual evidence that they are really there, said Cleo Loi of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Allsky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) at the University of Sydney. Ms Loi is the lead author on this research, unde