243 results for "magnetic fields"

Recent studies have highlighted the catastrophic potential of extreme solar blasts, particularly when combined with a weakened magnetic field. These phenomena, occurring roughly every thousand years, can significantly disrupt the...

Another big week for “The Galaxy Report” with insights into our Solar System’s mysterious magnetic fields to  the first planet found to be orbing three stars to physicist Leonard Susskind,...

Scientists are on the hunt for primordial magnetic fields dating back to the Big Bang, which would transform our understanding of how the universe evolved and solve a major mystery...

Posted on Mar 25, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Science The  massive now-iconic object at the center of the M87 was described by scientists on April 10, 2019 as...

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 in Astronomy, Space, Universe New research has provided clues that galactic magnetars –young pulsars that spin more slowly than ordinary pulsars and have the most...

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Space, Technology In November of 2020 astronomers unveiled an image of the Milky Way’s violent center similar in importance to the Event...

Posted on Jul 22, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science, Space “Our study is the first to use observed signals to derive exoplanet magnetic field strengths,” says Evgenya Shkolnik at Arizona...

Posted on Mar 24, 2019 in Biology, Evolution, Science “Our animal ancestry argues that geomagnetic field sensors should also be there representing not the sixth sense but perhaps the 10th...

Posted on Mar 14, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science Analysis of sites on Mars show that the red planet’s protective field was switched off half a billion years ago, and...

“It may still be that Saturn’s turbulent atmosphere of thick gases is obscuring some of the magnetic data, but it looks increasingly likely we will have to rethink the ways...

Posted on Jun 19, 2017 in Uncategorized   With the discovery of thousands of planets beyond the solar system, scientists are eager to learn if rocky "super-Earths," up to 10...

Posted on Dec 1, 2015 When certain massive stars use up all of their fuel and collapse onto their cores, explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than the average supernova...

Posted on Sep 29, 2015 in Uncategorized A planet's magnetic field emanates from its core and is thought to deflect the charged particles of the stellar wind, protecting the atmosphere...

Researchers have discovered a magnetic halo around the Milky Way, revealing large-scale magnetized structures extending over 16,000 light-years above and below the galaxy's plane. These structures are linked to powerful…

A recent solar eruption from sunspot AR3835, coinciding with Earth's autumnal equinox, has increased the chances of a geomagnetic storm impacting Earth on September 25. While most of the solar…

In an extraordinary event, a massive solar storm that erupted in April 2023 temporarily disrupted Earth's magnetosphere, opening up a rare, two-hour magnetic highway between the Sun and Earth. This...

A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with the potential to light up the skies across northern U.S. states with the northern...

In an extraordinary scientific breakthrough, astronomers have discovered magnetic stars beyond the Milky Way for the first time. These stars, located in the Magellanic Clouds, have provided new insights into...

For decades, many astronomers around the world have struggled to determine large-scale magnetic field features in the Milky Way. In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal on May 10,...

Starlink, Elon Musk's SpaceX satellite arm, warned on Saturday of "degraded service" as the Earth was hammered by the largest geomagnetic storm caused by solar activity in more than two...

New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on unexplained aspects of the Universe....

Using Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet data, researchers have identified the first signature of carbon ions surrounding exoplanet HAT-P-11b, a Neptune-sized planet 123 light-years from Earth. The charged carbon ions trace...

So far, we have had only close calls from gamma ray explosions so large, scientists have suggested, that if they occurred within our solar neighborhood (less than 1,000 light years)...

Posted on Jan 9, 2021 in Astronomy, Science When stars more than thirty times bigger than our sun explode, they produce a type of young neutron star called a magnetar...

(For the Holiday Season, from Christmas through New Year’s Day, we’ll post 2020’s most viewed articles as ranked by Google Analytics.) The world’s astronomers are increasingly probing the mystery of...

Posted on Mar 19, 2022 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Science, Universe The world’s astronomers are increasingly probing the mystery of where the enormous magnetic fields that permeate our universe come from...

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Posted on Jul 22, 2020 in Astronomy, Science “What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on...

Posted on Apr 9, 2020 in Science Earth’s magnetic field is thought to play an important role in making the planet habitable, deflecting away solar wind that might otherwise strip...

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Climate Change, Science Today Mars is a frigid desert world with a carbon dioxide atmosphere 100 times thinner than Earth’s, the result...

Posted on Jun 12, 2019 in Astronomy, Black Hole, News, Science “The spiral shape of the magnetic field channels the gas into an orbit around the black hole,” said Darren...

“It’s a shame we don’t have it naturally here on earth, but on Jupiter, there are oceans of metallic hydrogen. We want to find out how these oceans give rise...

Posted on May 20, 2019 “It is incredible that one narrow magnetic hot spot, the Great Blue Spot, could be responsible for almost all of Jupiter’s variation, but the numbers...

Posted on Apr 19, 2019 in Science “Mercury’s interior is still active, due to the molten core that powers the planet’s weak magnetic field, relative to Earth’s,” said Antonio Genova,...

Posted on Aug 7, 2018 “It’s a really surprising and puzzling observation showing that a moon with a magnetic field can create such a tremendous intensification in the power of...

Posted on Aug 10, 2017 in Uncategorized "Today the moon's field is essentially zero," says Benjamin Weiss, professor of planetary sciences at MIT. "And we now know it turned off...

Posted on Apr 24, 2017 in Uncategorized New data from NASA's Cassini mission, combined with measurements from the two Voyager spacecraft and NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, suggests that...

Posted on Feb 1, 2017 in Uncategorized The Earth’s continuously changing magnetic field surrounds the planet like an invisible force field – deflecting highly charged solar particles. Reversals are the...

Posted on Jul 1, 2016 “Both the planet we live on and the star we orbit are made up of ‘normal’ matter,” said Tanmay Vachaspati a theoretical physicist at Arizona...

Researchers have detected the most powerful gamma rays ever recorded at the center of the Milky Way, confirming the presence of a PeVatron, a cosmic accelerator that produces some of…

NOAA has released the first images from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), the world’s first operational space-based coronagraph, capturing unprecedented views of the sun’s corona and monitoring coronal mass ejections (CMEs).…

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured new, detailed images of the symbiotic binary star R Aquarii, located 700 light-years from Earth. This dynamic system, composed of a red giant and…

NASA has confirmed that the Sun is at solar maximum, the peak of its 11-year cycle. This phase brings more frequent auroras and powerful space weather events, which could last…

A decades-old mystery about the sun’s outer atmosphere has been solved by researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Their discovery shows that reflected Alfvén waves are responsible for the…

NASA has powered down one of Voyager 2's key science instruments, the plasma science detector, as the spacecraft's power supply continues to decline. The decision, made to conserve energy, comes…

A massive X7.1-class solar flare erupted from the sun on October 1, 2024, sending a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. The resulting geomagnetic storm could trigger auroras visible in…

NASA’s Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has captured a stunning image of the Rosette Nebula, a star-forming region 5,000 light-years away. This high-resolution image provides detailed insights into the processes of…

The groundbreaking image, taken by the JENI instrument, reveals the intricate structure of the Van Allen belts, providing critical insights into space weather and the hazards of deep space exploration.

In a stunning new discovery, ESA’s Solar Orbiter has captured the first-ever footage of fully developed turbulence in the Sun’s corona, offering unprecedented insights into the origins of the solar…

Astronomers have discovered colossal black hole jets stretching an unprecedented 23 million light-years across the cosmos, the longest ever observed. These jets, named Porphyrion, originate from a supermassive black hole…