Van Allen
Americannoun
noun
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Those rings, called the Van Allen belts, shield Earth from cosmic radiation, solar storms and streaming solar wind, which are harmful to humans and can damage technology.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
The research focused on two bands of energetic particles in near earth space, referred to as the Radiation Belts, or the Van Allen Belts.
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024
He also made the first radio map of the Milky Way’s center, and co-discovered regions of seething radiation around Jupiter analogous to Earth’s Van Allen belts.
From Scientific American • Sep. 6, 2022
“Color is science, but it’s also math, it’s art, it’s psychology,” said Peggy Van Allen.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022
Explorer I was launched with a scientific unit that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the Earth, later known as the Van Allen belts.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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