Sentences with phrase «20,000-fold stronger magnetic field»

Because of Saturn's strong magnetic field, the poles are home to beautiful Aurorae, just like those of Earth and Jupiter.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor program in the south of France will use magnetic fusion and employ strong magnetic fields to hold and fuse hydrogen plasma.

They could also help engineers better design probes that can survive repeated passes through the strong magnetic fields near Jupiter.

Infrared light is a good probe of the magnetic field because stronger magnetic fields change the way light is emitted in that range.

The stronger the magnetic field, the farther the distance between the peaks.

The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment, started at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before moving to the University of Washington, seeks the subtle signatures — just a trillionth of a trillionth of a watt — left by axions as they're snagged by a strong magnetic field.

The pulsar's fast rotation and strong magnetic field work together to accelerate electrons and other particles to very high energies.

Now, scientists using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) say they may have observed this effect in the light coming from a neutron star — a cosmic object with a very strong magnetic field.

In 1930, physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler predicted that very strong magnetic fields could change the polarity of light waves in a vacuum (where polarity refers to the orientation of the light's electric and magnetic fields).

Vacuum birefringence «can be detected only in the presence of enormously strong magnetic fields, such as those around neutron stars,» study co-author Roberto Turolla, a scientist at the University of Padua in Italy, said in the statement.

The trick was performed using a strong magnetic field that distorts the movement of electrons in water molecules, which in turn produces a magnetic field opposing the one applied.

Stars so young also are often active, with visual outbursts and dimmings, strong magnetic fields and enormous starspots that can make it appear that planets exist where they do not.

«A strong magnetic field provides a shield for the atmosphere,» said Tarduno, «This is important for the preservation of habitable conditions on Earth.»

This refutes some claims that FRBs are produced in dense environments with strong magnetic fields.

TWISTS AND TURNS The twisted waves from a distant fast radio burst suggest the burst originates from a neighborhood with a strong magnetic field.

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any human - made electromagnet.

In research machines such as fusion reactors, scientists use strong magnetic fields to confine plasma, but those fields interfere with seeing what might happen during a natural dynamo.

In an experiment in Grenoble, France, scientists have forced a strong magnetic field onto the flowing sodium.

Particulate matter in Earth's atmosphere is largely spared from the solar winds by our planet's strong magnetic field, something Venus lacks.

But Michilli points out that in order to drive such strong magnetic fields, the supernova remnant would have to be a million times brighter than even the brightest remnant in the Milky Way, the Crab nebula (SN: 1/1/11, p. 11).

The spots are planet - sized regions in which strong magnetic fields become tangled.

The latest observations, reported online January 10 in Nature and at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, suggest the bursts are coming from an environment with an unusually strong magnetic field.

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any man - made electromagnet.

Scientists use the apparatus to search for axions converting into radio waves in a strong magnetic field.

They think a very strong magnetic field, tens of trillions of times the size of Earth's and much stronger even than a normal pulsar's field, generates the bursting pulsar's signals.

On a bursting pulsar, though, the incredibly strong magnetic field would help the hydrogen to cool and pile up without fusing.

It's also still unknown whether any other bursts have twisted waves at high frequencies — the smoking gun for strong magnetic fields.

Such large black holes are already known to have strong magnetic fields and to make polarized light rotate.

In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980s.

On Earth, a strong magnetic field and a thick atmosphere help protect life from radiation blazing from the sun and the rest of the universe.

That fall, Pioneer 11, the first craft to approach Saturn, discovered strong magnetic fields and took temperature readings suggesting that this cold planet glows with internal heat.

What makes this model unique is that a magnet in the center of the inner sphere provides a strong magnetic field, while the rotation of this core drives the flow of the conducting liquid very effectively.

The movement of iron, which can carry a charge, generates a strong magnetic field that can protect a planet's atmosphere from being ravaged by solar wind (SN Online: 8/18/17).

Under these conditions, the liquid sodium is subjected to a strong magnetic field and to fast rotation, as would be expected in Earth's core, and undergoes both large - scale motion and random fluctuations.

That polarization is evidence of «vacuum birefringence,» a quantum effect first predicted 80 years ago caused by light interacting with the vacuum of space in a strong magnetic field.

Light from the star, too faint to be seen in the image above, is polarized due to interactions with the vacuum of space in a strong magnetic field.

In general, if the charged particles from a CME hit Earth's magnetosphere head on and the ejection has a strong magnetic field pointing south, then the disruptive effects are greater, Gombosi says.

To emulate a strong magnetic field, the researchers created a non-planar arrangement of four mirrors that makes the light twist as it completes a round trip.

The famous sunspots on the surface of the Earth's star result from the dynamics of strong magnetic fields, and their numbers are an important indicator of the state of activity on the Sun.

The origin of these jets is still unknown, although strong magnetic fields are suspected to play a role.

If a neutron star is left, it may have a very strong magnetic field and rotate extremely quickly, emitting a beam of light that can be observed when the beam points towards Earth, in much the same way as a lighthouse beam sweeping past an observer.

The strong magnetic field gives a more complicated dynamo effect that resembles what you see at the stage where a new star is being created.

Thus, the atmosphere could have eroded too soon, even if the exoplanet was protected by a strong magnetic field like the magnetosphere surrounding Earth, Dong said.

If we have a laser with the right wavelength, the electrons will oscillate and a strong magnetic field will form in the gap area.

Later on in life, it looks like the magnetars we see in our galaxy, which have extremely strong magnetic fields but rotate more like ordinary pulsars.»

«The transition might have something to do with the creation of Jupiter's strong magnetic field.»

Superconductivity and magnetic fields are normally seen as rivals — very strong magnetic fields normally destroy the superconducting state.

During their travels, the sound waves speed up when they cross regions where the strong magnetic fields that accompany sunspots and other storm centers push down the solar surface.

The shocking discovery that Mercury has a strong magnetic field led to three working hypotheses.

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute have now demonstrated that before this happens, a new exotic state of the material is created in strong magnetic fields.