Sentences with phrase «traces magnetic field lines»
The map shows the intensity of infrared light, and traces magnetic field lines within filaments of warm dust grains and hot gas, which appear here as thin lines reminiscent of brush strokes in a painting.
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«We computed the Sun's magnetic environment by tracing millions of magnetic field lines and looking at how neighboring field lines connect and diverge,» said Antonia Savcheva, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and co-author of the paper.
In the image above, blue lines track strong magnetic field lines directed one way, while those in magenta trace powerful lines in the opposite direction.
Scientists are not able to observe magnetic fields directly so they use hot gases in the sun's atmosphere to trace out magnetic field lines.