Sentences with phrase «surrounded by a magnetic field»

The newly minted francium is captured in the glass chamber shown here, where it is surrounded by a magnetic field and cooled by lasers until it condenses to form a cloud less than a tenth of an inch in diameter.

Earth is in the middle of the image, surrounded by its magnetic field, represented by purple lines.

Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that extends far out into space in a teardrop - shaped cavity called the magnetosphere.

Not exact matches

«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.

These electrons, known as photoelectrons, have a very specific energy of 24.1 electronvolts, which means they can be traced by the CAPS instrument, and easily distinguished from other electrons, as they propagate through the surrounding 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.

By carefully controlling the composition of the droplets and the strength of the magnetic field, the forces applied by the droplet can be controlled, and the response of the surrounding tissue reveals its mechanical characteristics as well as the cues that cells are exposed to as the tissue growBy carefully controlling the composition of the droplets and the strength of the magnetic field, the forces applied by the droplet can be controlled, and the response of the surrounding tissue reveals its mechanical characteristics as well as the cues that cells are exposed to as the tissue growby the droplet can be controlled, and the response of the surrounding tissue reveals its mechanical characteristics as well as the cues that cells are exposed to as the tissue grows.

By exposing a magnetically responsive droplet (purple) to a magnetic field, the scientists are able to exert pressure on the surrounding embryonic cells in order to study their response to mechanical forces

The magnetic nanoparticles are excited by the applied field and begin to get hot, heating and potentially destroying the surrounding cancer tissue.

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.

It will be surrounded by superconducting niobium coils that create magnetic fields 100,000 times as powerful as Earth's.

The team put monarchs in a flight simulator surrounded by a magnetic coil, measuring responses to horizontal, vertical, and intensity changes in the magnetic field.

According to the most prevalent theory, the black hole and the gas disk are surrounded by a strong magnetic field in which particles such as electrons are accelerated to almost the speed of light.

Such charged particles twirl and gyrate around the magnetic field lines created by the vast magnetic systems that surround the sun and Earth.

Previous cancer studies had shown that by injecting tumors with magnetic nanoparticles made of iron oxide — «essentially rust, with well - tuned magnetic properties,» Anikeeva says — then exposing them to rapidly alternating magnetic fields, excited nanoparticles can be used to heat and destroy cancer tumors while leaving surrounding, healthy tissue intact.

The researchers ascribe this effect to the interaction between the electrons carrying electricity and the magnetic field which is generated by the surrounding atomic nuclei in the organic molecules.

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.

These neutral atoms can not be confined by a magnetic field, so they fly off, collide with surrounding matter and, within 1/10, 000 of a second, are annihilated.

If it does have a large magnetic field, not fed particles by any solar wind from a companion, or surrounding nebula, it could be relatively empty of particles, and have low radiation levels in spite of the field.

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

Birkeland was convinced that the aurora were created by charged particles streaming from the sun, drawn towards the poles of the earth by the magnetic field surrounding the planet and creating the lights as they collided with atoms in the earth's atmosphere, about 100 kilometers above the surface of the planet.

You also have to make sure that your Kindle device is not surrounded by the devices with strong magnetic fields.

Article by Phil Livermore, Associate Professor of geophysics, University of Leeds and Jon Mound, Associate Professor of Geophysics, University of Leeds The Earth's magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field — protecting life from harmful solar radiation by deflecting charged particles away.