Sentences with phrase «magnetic fields like»

There are no magnetic fields like that in our solar system, not even in this corner of the galaxy.

The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia show that the fast radio bursts from this object, called FRB 121102, are nearly 100 percent linearly polarized, an indication that the source of the bursts is embedded in strong magnetic fields like those around a massive black hole.

Eventually, studying 3 - D knotted magnetic fields like those potentially present in ball lightning might help scientists devise better ways to control plasmas within future fusion reactors for generating power, the researchers suggest.

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.

These clouds stretch our planet's magnetic field like a rubber band, storing energy in a long magnetic tail behind our planet.

A strong magnetic field like that of V374 Peg can trap a CME at the Astrospheric Current Sheet, with the deflection depending primarily on the CME mass but also on its speed.

C. Carreau, ASPERA - 4 & MAG teams, Venus Express, ESA Annotated image illustrating loss of hydrogen through plasma wake Venus may have lost oceans of water due to a runaway greenhouse effect which evaporated water into the upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet light dissociated water into ionized atomic hydrogen and oxygen (some later incorporated into carbon dioxide) that were blown away by the Solar wind due to the lack of a strong magnetic field like the Earth's (more).

Not exact matches

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

But the Earth keeps right on rotating when the magnetic field goes through one of it's more random phases that's the primary reason why it eventually becomes dipolar (like a bar magnet) again, although sometimes with the opposite polarity.

Pannenberg understands spirit as «field,» a conception somewhat like the field theory introduced in 19thcentury science, which describes the interaction of material bodies in terms of interlocking networks called forces (e.g., magnetic fields).

God is an unseen deity that exists just as there unseen powers that exist that can really affect you like solar flares, radiation, magnetic fields.

Did you know that the Earth acts like a giant bar magnet creating a magnetic field?

We use a Himalayan salt lamp, which not only purifies the air and reduces electro - magnetic field radiation, but it has a very relaxing light color that looks like warm fire tone that promotes sleep.

The magnetic field compresses the material, but unlike a physical contact force like a metal plate, the material is not constrained.

The inner region sends out clock - like pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles embedded in magnetic fields.

It worked like the nozzle on a garden hose, except his version was invisible, regulating the flow of ions with magnetic fields.

For a glimpse of what Earth might be like without its protective magnetic shield, we have only to look at the lifeless surfaces of worlds with anemic magnetic fields, like Mars and Venus.

Or it may have navigated using Earth's magnetic field, much like some amphibians and migratory birds.

«It's not like the magnetotail found at Venus, a planet with no magnetic field of its own, nor is it like Earth's, which is surrounded by its own internally generated magnetic field.

In an MRI machine, a powerful magnetic field causes protons in the body to line up like violin strings under tension, then a pulse of energy plucks those «strings,» making them hum.

MRIs work by tapping into an astonishing phenomenon: When placed in a powerful magnetic field, the hydrogen atoms in water molecules behave like small bar magnets.

If, however, the gap size was 8 microns or larger, the researchers observed a phase transition, in which bacteria in every well synchronized, flowing in the same direction, like aligned electrons in a magnetic field.

The ripples spreading out below the pulsar like waves on a lake show where streams of electrons and positrons, shooting away from the pulsar at nearly the speed of light, begin to bunch up along the pulsar's changing magnetic field.

Unike Earth, Titan has no magnetic field of its own, but is surrounded by Saturn's rapidly rotating magnetic field, which drapes forming a comet - like tail around the moon.

Because a disk is composed of ionized gas and dust, a spinning stars magnetic field gets caught up in it and the result is like a spoon being dragged through molasses, Rebull says.

On Earth, researchers create fusion in facilities like tokamaks, which control the hot plasma with magnetic fields.

Among other things, Lathrop will be looking for magnetic field reversals like those seen on Earth.

But then the evolution took a surprising turn: in all the simulations, no matter what the magnetic field looked like when the neutron star was born, the field took on a particular structure and its evolution dramatically slowed.

They then slowly vary a magnetic field, which lets the qubits gradually adjust to each other, sort of like people huddling in the cold.

Magnetic elements like iron or neodymium typically arrange themselves this way, thus generating a permanent magnetiMagnetic elements like iron or neodymium typically arrange themselves this way, thus generating a permanent magneticmagnetic field.

Like many planets and most stars, Earth produces its own magnetic field by dynamo action, i.e. because of the motion of an electrically conducting fluid - in this case, a mixture of molten iron and nickel.

In the simplest models of reversals, the Earth's magnetic field behaves like a bar magnet that points roughly along the planet's axis of rotation.

Inserting magnetic droplets at different locations in the tissue, and generating forces by applying a magnetic field to the droplets, the researchers showed that the tissue behaves like a fluid while growing, with similar mechanical characteristics as thick honey.

A team of metrologists scanned the plasma containment chamber, or stellarator (as in, «this thing works like a star»), that uses magnetic fields to confine the super-hot plasma within the reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in sections, then stitched more than 20 of them together in a seamless mosaic.

Like refrigerator magnets, chromium triiodide is a ferromagnet, a material that generates a permanent magnetic field owing to the aligned spins of its electrons.

Magnetic waves in plasma, called Alfvén waves, are thought to ripple through the sun's magnetic field lines like vibrations in a guitarMagnetic waves in plasma, called Alfvén waves, are thought to ripple through the sun's magnetic field lines like vibrations in a guitarmagnetic field lines like vibrations in a guitar string.

Sheltered as we are by Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which deflect lethal radiation from space, we are like coddled children who have never ventured into a tough neighborhood.

Magnetic fields surrounding the sun and the planets look sort of like comets, with long tails extending behind them.

Radiation emanating from their powerful magnetic fields is swept around much like a lighthouse.

«Young sun - like star shows a magnetic field was critical for life on the early Earth.»

The farther away from Earth you get, the more its magnetic field actually does act like a dipole, or a bar magnet — even if in reality it is no such thing.

The twisting motion causes the photons to move like charged particles in a magnetic field, even though there is no actual magnet present.

While the modern moon lacks a global magnetic field, magnetized rocks offer a record of what the lunar magnetic field was like when they cooled down billions of years ago.

So the north magnetic pole is where the earth's magnetic field lines pull toward the planet, acting like the south pole of a bar magnet.

The surveyor's magnetic field studies suggest Mars used to have a surprisingly Earth - like churning dynamo core.

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.»

But how they come together is of interest as the particles first gather into a disorganized aggregated cluster and then into a crystal - like regimen as the magnetic field becomes stronger.

«Instead of a prolonged, comet - like tail, this rough bubble - shape of the heliosphere is due to the strong interstellar magnetic field — much stronger than what was anticipated in the past — combined with the fact that the ratio between particle pressure and magnetic pressure inside the heliosheath is high,» said Kostas Dialynas, a space scientist at the Academy of Athens in Greece and lead author on the study.

Kharzeev has some other ideas: «The resistance of this material drops as the magnetic field strength increases, which could open up a completely different route toward achieving something like superconductivity — zero resistance,» he said.

At the same time, an electric field aligned along the current is responsible for converting magnetic into kinetic energy, firing out particles like a slingshot.