Sentences with phrase «own magnetic poles»

Good for her Actual compasses are pretty good at giving you direction, as long as you realize that the north magnetic pole shifts quite often.

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

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.

Magnetic poles are seemingly inseparable: Slice a magnet in half, and you get two smaller magnets, each with its own north and south poles.

The new data also provides more evidence that a region in southern Africa may play a unique role in magnetic pole reversals.

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.

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

The magnetic poles tilt around the circle.

They found the star flips its magnetic poles every two years — 11 times faster than our sun.

In a ferromagnet, a standard magnet like the one holding up the grocery list on your refrigerator, the atoms» magnetic poles point in the same direction (SN Online: 5/14/12).

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.

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.

That field, they say, would funnel hydrogen from a red giant toward a small spot at the neutron star's magnetic poles, just as in a normal pulsar.

They also re-discovered Uranus» long - lost magnetic poles, which were lost shortly after their discovery by Voyager 2 in 1986 due to uncertainties in measurements and the featureless planet surface.

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.

Since north poles are attracted to south poles, the «north» arrow on your compass actually points toward the earth's south magnetic pole, which is the one up north.

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.

SOLE POLE Scientists are searching for hypothetical particles called magnetic monopoles, which have a single north or south magnetic pole.

Whatever undergraduate physicists are told, magnetic poles do indeed enjoy the single life, says Richard Webb

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.

So if you're standing over the north magnetic pole with a compass, the needle would dip and try to point straight down — hence its other name: the magnetic dip pole.

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

To complicate matters, stars» magnetic poles switch direction regularly, which means the more powerful jet would sometimes point in the opposite direction.

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.

The north magnetic pole in recent years has started shifting quickly toward Siberia.

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.

«That is why some people have suggested that to avoid this confusion we should call the north magnetic pole the «north seeking pole.»»

«One thing that's very confusing is the fact that there's a magnetic pole and a geomagnetic pole and that they're different,» says Stefan Maus, a geomagnetic field modeler at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Geophysical Data Center.

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.

The star's magnetic poles switch places every 11 years or so.

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.

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

After all, a compass merely follows the magnetic poles, which are not aligned with the true cardinal directions.

Paleomagnetic dating — matching magnetic properties in the sediments surrounding a fossil or artifact to ancient reversals in the Earth's magnetic poles to determine age — later determined the tools had to have been made 3.3 million years ago.

Due to their spins, the electrons act as tiny magnets where their magnetic poles align with their spins.

«And it is also possible that the region may actually be a trigger for magnetic pole reversals, which might happen if the weak field region becomes very large.»

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.

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

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

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.

They are like giant magnets that emit radiation from their magnetic poles.

The researchers implanted arrays of magnetic palladium - cobalt dots on a superconducting film of lead, lining up the dots» magnetic poles so they all pointed the same way, explains team leader and physicist Victor Moshchalkov.

Dr. Roee Ozeri of the Institute's Physics of Complex Systems Department says: «The electron has spin, a form of orientation involving two opposing magnetic poles.

However, given the wide range of angles the magnetic poles could be aligned in space, it is more likely that the beam will miss the Earth.

The neutron star's magnetic field lines converge at the magnetic poles, so the charges get focussed and a narrow cone of non-thermal radiation is beamed outward.

The magnetic poles on a neutron star act like fountains, an escape valve for charged particles that get trapped in the star's enormously strong magnetic field.

Would not the accelerated dinural movement of the magnetic poles be at least considered in the mix of solar forcings?