Sentences with phrase «following magnetic lines»
If the sharks indeed have some way of following magnetic lines, when he engages the coils, the sharks will change directions.
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The corona is made up of charged plasma, which roils in famous loops and fans that follow magnetic field lines emerging from the surface of the sun (SN Online: 8/17/17).
The x-ray flare is large in extent, has fine strulctuire, and follows a neutral magnetic line.
When the gas plunges into the black hole, it follows the magnetic field lines.
The Van Allen Probes measure particle, electric and magnetic fields, or basically everything in the radiation belt environment, including the electrons, which descend following Earth's magnetic field lines that converge at the poles.
Since charged particles tend to follow magnetic field lines, moving along them in a sort of corkscrew motion, the gas molecules fly not only outward but also upward and downward along the magnetic field lines.
He reasoned that lines of force were analogous to the paths followed by the molecules of a fluid and that the strength of the electric or magnetic field was analogous to the velocity of the fluid.
Particles, including electrons, in the solar outburst can penetrate the ionosphere, following Earth's magnetic field lines, which converge at the poles.
Physicists aim to solve this mystery by mapping the coronal loops: streams of hot, glowing plasma that follow magnetic field lines...
That means, the team reports in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, that the masers are following magnetic field lines, and therefore magnetic fields are controlling the star's evolution by pulling away material that otherwise would have been captured by the star's gravity.
«You can then follow a magnetic field line from Earth directly into the solar wind.»
«This suggests that the magnetic field of TX Cam follows the lines of longitude on the star,» says Kemball.
Spicules may also follow along magnetic field lines of the sun, which are made by the movements of gases inside the sun.
When they reach the earth, some 40 hours after leaving the sun, they follow the lines of magnetic force generated by the earth's core and flow through the magnetosphere, a teardrop - shaped area of highly charged electrical and magnetic fields.