Sentences with phrase «magnetic poles of»

A previously undiscovered relationship exists between tropospheric oxygen and the wandering magnetic poles of Earth's core.

With the fall of Communism and the rise of developing markets, this period signaled a re-centering of culture and capital away from the magnetic poles of the United States and Western Europe toward emerging economies in Asia, central Europe, Latin America, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Think of the Indians as a team caught between the magnetic poles of two truths.

From a physics standpoint, then, the north needle of a compass (or any magnet) points to what is physically — but not in name — the south magnetic pole of the earth, in other words, in the direction of the Arctic.

If orientated properly, a hot spot above the magnetic pole of the neutron star may whirl in and out of view for observers on Earth, producing a regular train of radio pulses separated by anything from a few milliseconds to a few seconds.

Not exact matches

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

A compass is not made of the same substance as a magnetic field, nor is it sent or chosen by the north pole, but it is accurately sensitive to the pull and direction of the magnetic field within which we live.

The earth has North and South poles because of the «Magnetic Field» generated by the its metallic molten core.

In fact the magnetic dipole is shifted from the center of the planet towards the south rotational pole by as much as one third of the planetary radius.

As the molten rock solidified, the minerals preserved a record of Earth's polarity, the direction its north and south magnetic poles pointed at the time.

According to Posselt, Geminga may have magnetic poles quite close to the top and bottom of the object, and nearly aligned spin poles, much like Earth.

Atmospheres of glowing gas separated the shells, each of which had its own magnetic poles.

Which could account for our planet's weird history of magnetic field reversals, with north and south poles swapping places.

Unlike Earth, which has two magnetic poles (north and south), ice giants can have many local magnetic poles, which leading theories suggest may be due to superionic ice and ionic water in the mantle of these planets.

The existence of hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles would explain why electric charge comes in integer multiples of the charge of an electron instead of a continuous range of values, Emily Conover reported in «Magnets with a single pole are still giving physicists the slip» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 10).

Skyrmions, which dwell within such magnetic habitats, are composed of groups of atoms with their magnetic poles oriented in whorls.

This current fills the core and is the source of tremendous magnetism; its poles, located roughly at the ends of Earth's axis, mark magnetic north and south.

This strange but educated guess came in response to strong evidence that seismic waves traveling through the inner core along the axis of the magnetic poles complete their trip through Earth about four seconds more quickly than do waves traveling from one side of the equator to the other.

The poles have never completely reversed since, but for the past 160 years, the strength of the magnetic field has been decreasing at an alarming rate.

And in particularly in his latter part of his career, I mean the stuff that he was doing for example on magnetic mono poles still not verified, that's an absolutely beautiful piece of science; fundamental today in the way that quantum, advanced quantum field theory is done.

Pulsars, according to conventional theory, are neutron stars with immense magnetic fields — about a trillion times the strength of Earth's — that funnel hydrogen pulled from their red - giant neighbor continuously down onto their magnetic poles.

Within a few days, batse researchers had determined that the second signal was from a pulsar — a neutron star emitting a continuous beam of X-rays from its magnetic poles.

But when the sun ejects major blasts of particles in flares and solar storms, these belts overflow and send electrons streaming toward Earth along the looping lines of the magnetic field, which intersect the planet near the north and south poles.

As far as we can tell, though, nature only supplies magnetic charges, or poles, in pairs — the inseparable north and south poles of the bar magnets beloved of school science demonstrations, for example.

All known magnets have both a north and south pole, as illustrated in the inset image, with lines indicating the direction of the magnetic field.

They are detected from Earth by the beams of radio waves that emanate from their magnetic poles and sweep across space as the pulsar rotates.

Swirling bundles of magnetic field lines, flinging particles outward from the poles of the hole, provide a natural explanation.

While this journey to the southward was in progress, another party of the expedition climbed Mount Erebus, and a third party reached the south magnetic pole and located it, in 72 deg.

According to theory, these fields can funnel part of the star's energy back onto the surface, creating hot spots near the magnetic poles.

That estimate is backed up by paleomagnetic data, which show that this portion of the reef must have formed after Earth's magnetic poles last reversed, some 790,000 years ago.

And here's something to add even more confusion to the north magnetic pole (aka dip pole) versus north geomagnetic pole (aka dipole): the magnetic pole in Earth's northern hemisphere acts like the south pole of a bar magnet.

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 north pole of your bar magnet is attracted to the north [magnetic] pole of the earth,» Maus adds, the reverse of the usual situation in which like poles on magnets repel one another.

«A space physicist usually thinks in terms of this tilted dipole that the earth has,» Love says, «whereas a navigator would probably be more interested in the magnetic dip poles.»

Correction: This article has been updated to correct the frequency with which the north and south poles of Earth's magnetic field swap places.

6 Reversal of Earth's magnetic field Every few hundred thousand years Earth's magnetic field dwindles almost to nothing for perhaps a century, then gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped.

Los Alamos National Laboratory staff scientist Cristiano Nisoli explained, «The emergence of magnetic monopoles in spin ice systems is a particular case of what physicists call fractionalization, or deconfinement of quasi-particles that together are seen as comprising the fundamental unit of the system, in this case the north and south poles of a nanomagnet.

In the honeycomb pattern, where three magnetic poles intersect, a net charge of north or south is forced at each vertex.

The magnetic field lines originate in the Earth's core and emerge near the poles, where their angle of dip — or inclination — relative to Earth's surface is almost 90 degrees.

As Tarduno points out, it is only speculation because weakening magnetic fields can recover without leading to a reversal of the poles.

In the first 3D computer simulation of this process, they found that the neutron star's magnetic field channels this stolen matter to its magnetic poles, creating a mountain on each pole.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emergefrom the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent thespeed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - yearsinto intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.How might a black - hole whirlpool generate such a pair of waterspouts?Swirling bundles of magnetic field lines, flinging particles outwardfrom the poles of the hole, provide a natural explanation.

Bright beams of radiation shine from the stars» magnetic poles.

And that if you heat a magnet up enough, then you have no magnet at all: High temperatures randomly jumble all the bits of magnetic material (ultimately orientations of spinning electrons) that had aligned themselves along the north - to - south - pole axis.

But observations last year hint that the protostar's stellar wind was flowing more quickly from the object's poles (relative speeds depicted in bluish ovoid in image above), and its magnetic field had become aligned with that of the larger cloud of gas and dust that surrounds it, the researchers report online today in Science.

Each is composed of building blocks bound together, like a string of small magnetic beads — and just as magnets have poles, these building blocks have «plus» and «minus» ends.

But then the negative magnetic pole right next to it kicks it to the other side of the wiggler.

The magnetic field was measured 600 μm away from the pole with a Gaussmeter at up to 23.4 mT, which translates into a magnetic field of about 300 mT at the edge of the pole.

Tomorrow is the birthday of Motonori Matuyama, a Japanese geophysicist born in 1884 who discovered that Earth's magnetic poles have flip - flopped throughout history.

This receptor seems to measure the strength of the magnetic field — the field is generally strongest at the poles — and the angle of the field in relation to the ground, which also varies with latitude.