Sentences with phrase «magnetic field lines twist»
The similarity is both in the strength of the field and in its arrangement, with magnetic field lines twisted in spirals around the galaxy's rotation axis.
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The activity twisted and contorted lines in the sun's magnetic field until they snapped and reconnected, triggering giga - lightning bolts that showered Earth's satellites 93 million miles away with X-rays and gamma rays.
In addition, astronomers have conjured some tricky mathematics to show that the magnetic field lines contract and twist as they get farther and farther away from the disk.
Team member Robert Erdélyi at the University of Sheffield, UK, says that energy is probably channelled in the form of magnetic disturbances called torsional Alfvén waves, which race up the twisted field lines of the tornado to be dissipated as heat in the corona.
A popular theoretical model says that magnetic - field lines in the spinning disk are twisted tightly together and confine the fast - moving particles into narrow «jets» streaming from the poles of the disk.
A study published in 2014, which also used VANDAM data, found that the material being pulled toward one young star is twisting the magnetic field lines and changing their configuration along the way.
The differential rotation of the Sun's latitudes causes its magnetic field lines to become twisted together over time, causing magnetic field loops to erupt from the Sun's surface and trigger the formation of the Sun's dramatic sunspots and solar prominences (see magnetic reconnection).
The lone active region visible on the sun put on a fine display with its tangled magnetic field lines swaying and twisting above it (Apr.24 - 26, 2018) when viewed in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light.