Sentences with phrase «intense magnetic field»

That supercooling is needed to maintain superconductivity and produce the MRI's intense magnetic field.

It has a mass of 1.5 the mass of the Sun concentrated in about 10 kilometers diameter object, rotates 30 times per second, and is surrounded by a region of intense magnetic field ten thousand billion times stronger than that of the Sun.

The device, known as a transcranial magnetic stimulator, is designed to send a strong electric current through a metal coil, which creates an intense magnetic field for about one millisecond.

This aurora is driven by Jupiter's intense magnetic field, which causes particles to reach such high speeds that they can split the water molecules in the plume when they hit them, resulting in oxygen and hydrogen ions which leave their telltale imprint in the colours of the aurora.

The pair of probes would also be used to conduct joint studies of Jupiter's intense magnetic field.

As it gradually slows down, this pulsar sheds energy along the axis of its intense magnetic field at a fantastic rate.

Another downside: Many metal objects, including cell phones, laptops, and guests with metal plates in their heads, can not be stored in the intense magnetic field underneath the bed.

The electrons in the hydrogen would be trapped and move up and down the bursting pulsar's intense magnetic field lines, but not across them.

However, radio waves penetrate the fog to reveal hot cradles of baby stars, ghostly outlines of ancient supernova explosions, and glowing bands that follow the paths of intense magnetic fields.

(Sunspots are relatively cool because their intense magnetic fields keep a lid on the heat rising from inside the sun.)

As these monsters feast on clouds of gas, their intense magnetic fields could thrust jets of high - energy particles out into space at virtually the speed of light.

Most flares occur around sunspots, where intense magnetic fields emerge from the Sun's surface into the corona.

Type II superconductors, in contrast, retain their superconductive properties even in intense magnetic fields.

The gauntlet Juno ran at Jupiter held many chances for catastrophe: The spacecraft might have been knocked out by intense magnetic fields (at that distance, 20 times stronger than Earth's), ionizing radiation (a total dose of 265 rads — more than enough to kill a human being), dust particles from Jupiter's rings (from which the main engine was completely unshielded) or loss of power if the solar arrays were unable to reorient to the sun.

Not that these clouds escape the fireworks: intense magnetic fields cause the electrically charged surfaces of some of the clouds to radiate as they push through the fields, like a dragging car bumper throwing off sparks as it scrapes along the asphalt.

The black hole has a mass of about 2 billion solar masses, and as matter falls into the black hole it is concentrated by the intense magnetic fields around the black hole and some of it is propelled outwards to form the jet.

They pack the mass of an entire star (more massive than our sun) into their tiny volumes and possess intense magnetic fields.

As a result, the study of these objects enables us to study the effects of extraordinarily intense magnetic fields on matter,» explains Dr. Morris L. Aizenman, Executive Officer in the Division of Astronomy at the National Science Foundation.

Many researchers assume that a supermassive black hole is located in the center of a quasar and intense magnetic fields are responsible for ejecting powerful jets.

But pulsars emit gamma rays, and scientists such as KIPAC's Roger Romani can study these to measure their rotation and understand how high - energy radiation is generated in their intense magnetic fields.

They achieved the pressures using MIT's custom Alcator - C Mod Tokamak reactor, which uses intense magnetic fields to contain the reaction within a fixed volume.

Not exact matches

18 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines generate a field 60,000 times as intense as the earth's to vibrate the hydrogen atoms in your body; in response, the atoms emit radio waves that are analyzed to produce a map of your insides.

The chance alignment of the sun's and Earth's magnetic fields shielded the planet from the intense October 28 eruption.

Bizarre ice that forms under intense pressure and high temperatures may cause Neptune's and Uranus's odd magnetic fields.

When the extraordinary magnetic field begins to slow the star's spinning, it releases intense bursts of energy in X-ray wavelengths, visible to NASA's X-ray observatories.

But solar flares — the brief, intense flashes of light caused by the sun's magnetic fields changing shape suddenly — couldn't be causing the heating because none were observed.

Duncan and Thompson deduced that the superfast spin would cause the remnant star's magnetic field to wrap around itself, growing far more intense.

NASA might choose to extend it, but the spacecraft could still succumb any day to the intense radiation from the deadly halos of high - energy particles trapped around the planet by magnetic fields.

Inertial confinement fusion achieves this by crushing tiny capsules of fuel with intense laser or magnetic field pulses to achieve the required conditions.

But they could only do so when the apparatus was chilled to minus 453.9 degrees Fahrenheit (nearly absolute zero), was bombarded with intense microwaves and exposed to superstrong magnetic fields.

Those motions provide direct insight into the intense, highly variable magnetic fields close to the sun, the researchers report online today in Science.

Since intense solar storms can disturb the magnetic field, the scientists wanted to determine whether they could, by extension, actually interfere with animals» internal compasses and lead them astray.

Proton density after laser impact on a spherical solid density target: irradiated by an ultra-short, high intensity laser (not in picture) the intense electro - magnetic field rips electrons apart from their ions and creates a plasma.

Among its discoveries: an intense radiation belt above Jupiter's cloud tops, helium in about the same concentration as the Sun, extensive and rapid resurfacing of the moon Io because of volcanism and a magnetic field at Ganymede.

Superflares - According to one recent hypothesis, unusually intense stellar flares from a sun - like («Sol - type») star could be caused by the interaction of the magnetic field of a giant planet in tight orbit with that star's own magnetic field.

The peroxide is created by the intense radiation processing of Europa's surface ice that comes from the moon's location within Jupiter's strong magnetic field.

Additionally, as this NASA press release details, Juno's observations reveal that Jupiter's magnetic field — already known to be the most intense in the solar system — is even stronger than previously estimated, and uneven, with lumpy areas of relative strength and weakness.

Radio astronomers discovered intense belts of radiation surrounding Jupiter created by electrons trapped in its powerful magnetic field — 10x the Earth's!

The jet originates in the disk of superheated gas swirling around this object and is propelled and concentrated by the intense, twisted magnetic fields trapped within this plasma.

Sunspots are the centers of intense localized magnetic fields and represent the most obvious manifestations of solar activity.

«The energy was intense,» said Lazerson, who has been working at the W7 - X since March with a team that has been designing and analyzing experiments that map the stellarator's magnetic field.

Undulators, with small and low field bending, create a narrower radiation cone with more intense beam, with selected wavelengths or harmonics, which can be tuned by manipulating the magnetic field of the device by changing the gap.

Using intense heat, magnetic fields and pressure, the nuclei of lighter elements are fused together to create heavier elements, releasing energy in the process.

The latter half of the twentieth century saw the most intense solar magnetic field (by sunspot number proxy) in the past 400 years since sunspot records began.