DTU Space offers a number of exciting study lines and courses within space research and space technology. With an education from DTU, you can become one of the people who set the agenda for future space research and contribute to monitoring and understanding climate change and the Earth's environment.
Research at DTU Space is characterised by a strong interaction between basic research and technology development, and the Institute's projects often involve international co-operation.
Press release: Did exploding stars help life on Earth to thrive?
Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars – supernovae – near the Solar Systemas strongly influenced the development of life. Prof. Henrik Svensmark of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) sets out his novel work in a paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. When the most massive stars exhaust their available fuel and reach the end of their lives, they explode as supernovae, tremendously powerful explosions that are briefly brighter than an entire galaxy of normal stars. The remnants of these dramatic events also release vast numbers of high-energy charged particles known as galactic cosmic rays (GCR). If a supernova is close enough to the Solar System, the enhanced GCR levels can have a direct impact on the atmosphere of the Earth.
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IAP Applications for the Arctic Workshop 12th March 2012
