Sentences with phrase «generating larger magnetic field»
Because they generate large magnetic fields they are an essential component in MRI scanners and levitating trains.
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On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.
Together with Eric Blackman, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, and Michael Watkeys, a geologist at the University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa, Tarduno hypothesizes that the region — which is referred to as a Large Low Shear Velocity Province (LLSVP)-- affects the direction of the churning liquid iron that generates Earth's magnetic field.
Although dynamos are thought to require large planetary cores, it's possible that the molten cores of these small bodies may have churned vigorously enough to generate magnetic fields, he says.
This same motion also helps to generate our planet's powerful magnetic field, which protects large life forms like humans from deadly cosmic radiation.
They found that the nanowires should generate a magnetic field as an electrical current passes through the atoms, just as larger conductive coils, known as solenoids, do.
These amazing outflows traverse distances larger than galaxies» 35 and are powered by the gigantic magnetic field generated by the spinning disk of matter spiraling in toward the event horizon.
This governs the nature of the dynamo that generates magnetic field in the stellar interior and determines the observed large - scale magnetic structure.
NASA, Chandra X-Ray Observatory — ring and larger images (more) Magnetic field interactions between giant stars Aa and Ab are thought to energize the corona of the larger star (Aa), generating more x-rays than would be expected for a single star (more) and creating an x-ray luminosity that is 10,000 times that of the Solar corona.