Sentences with phrase «with magnetic field lines»

The similarity is both in the strength of the field and in its arrangement, with magnetic field lines twisted in spirals around the galaxy's rotation axis.

«We discovered [by measuring Google Earth aerial pictures] that cattle align with the magnetic field lines a few years ago,» Begall said in an email.

Everything starts with magnetic field lines, or loops, that rise through an opening in the floor of the tokamak.

Not exact matches

These form in areas where magnetic field lines converge, producing cooler regions of «only» about 3,000 — 4,000 degrees Celsius (by contrast with their surroundings of 5,000 degrees Celsius or higher).

(When rocks form, their magnetic minerals line up with Earth's field, and that orientation is preserved when the rocks solidify, providing geophysicists with a record, written in stone, of the planet's magnetic past.)

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

After correcting the logs for errors in location, Gubbins compared the directions of captains» compass needles with the magnetic properties of rocks from the same period, allowing him to construct a time line of movements in the magnetic field.

The simple fact that the maximum value of volume current density was increased with increasing magnetic field line chaos, called «chaoticity,» suggests a direct proportionality between the intensity of the current sheet and chaoticity.

These showed the magnetic field evolving rapidly at first, in line with previous predictions.

The activity twisted and contorted lines in the sun's magnetic field until they snapped and reconnected, triggering giga - lightning bolts that showered Earth's satellites 93 million miles away with X-rays and gamma rays.

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.

Solar particles (the electric current) stream down Earth's magnetic field lines (the tube) and collide with molecules of nitrogen and oxygen (the gas), exciting them until they glow in various colors.

They occur when charged space particles, typically from the sun, stream along a planet's magnetic field lines and interact with atmospheric atoms, producing not only optical light but also radio emissions.

After puzzling it over and practically wallpapering his house with seafloor topography and magnetic field maps, in 1993 Klimley hypothesized that somehow their oblong - shaped heads can sense tiny changes in the magnetic lines created by volcanic lava flows.

This produces «magnetic field lines with one foot on the sun and one on Earth,» says Burch.

«The hyperbolic flux tube breaks the filament's magnetic field lines and reconnects them with those of the ambient Sun, so that the filament's magnetic energy is stripped away,» Chintzoglou said.

A team of researchers at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research is studying the motion of vortex domain walls — local regions of charge that collectively store information via their configuration — driven by magnetic fields in ferromagnetic nanowires, which are configured in a straight line with an asymmetric Y - like branch.

Monarchs, they found, navigate north or south using the change in dip of Earth's magnetic field lines with latitude.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

Magnetic field lines, erupting from a dynamo inside the sun, sculpt the corona into a menagerie of shapes with different names: loops, streamers, empty holes and mass ejections that burp outwards.

They are both created in generally the same way: Charged particles from the Sun interact with Earth's magnetic field lines.

Anything that nudges the spins of electrons that line up with the Earth's magnetic field will change the energy of those spins by a small amount.

But Paty found that when this wind blows towards Uranus at the right angle, the planet's magnetic field lines up with the solar wind's and lets particles through.

Their powerful magnetic field lines accelerate electrons to high speeds, causing them to collide with photons, which split into pairs of electrons and...

But sometimes, the sun's magnetic field lines can directly link up with Earth's in a process called magnetic reconnection, which opens up cracks in the magnetosphere.

The neutron star (red sphere) with its strong magnetic field (white lines) spins around itself nearly 30 times per second injecting energetic electrons in the space region around it.

But the magnetic field lines are embedded in the rotating galaxy, so they move with it.

The energy input from Saturn's magnetospheric interaction shows a strong interaction with Titan's atmosphere and the corresponding induced magnetosphere with draped magnetic field lines.

Recently, signatures of CO Cameron and CO2 + doublet ultraviolet auroral emissions have been detected with SPICAM (Gérard et al. 2015); they showed that the Mars aurora is a temporary and spatially localized phenomenon appearing near the open - closed magnetic field line boundary in cusp - like structures.

As the name suggests, it shares many parallels with its terrestrial counterpart; it consists of cool plasma condensations falling from coronal heights towards the solar surface guided by magnetic field lines.

When a current runs through the magnetic field lines, they snap shut and pinch off, a process called magnetic reconnection, essentially forming a magnetic «balloon» filled with the current needed to fuel fusion while also confining the plasma.

This is in line with more recent studies that suggest that misalignment of magnetic field and rotation axes or turbulence may enhance early disk formation, producing disks of 100 times the Earth - Sun radius or larger.

This would mean that TX Cam's magnetic field is structured similar to those of the Earth and Sun, which resemble the field of a bar magnet, with orderly field lines running from one pole to the other.

One leading scenario is that debris from the exploded star has fallen back onto magnetic field lines around the spinning neutron star, causing it to spin more slowly with time,» NASA said in a statement.

If the dust grains are paramagnetic so that they act somewhat like a magnet, then the general magnetic field, though very weak, can in time line up the grains with their short axes in the direction of the field.

The dynamics of solar processes can be captured on shorter time scales, and the improved light - gathering capacity of the new telescopes allows us to extract more information from spectral lines with higher fidelity and accuracy, especially with respect to magnetic field measurements.

They discovered that the lobe, an area of the magnetosphere which is usually filled with cold, unenergetic, plasma, does in some cases fill up with hot plasma when magnetic reconnection occurs on the night side of the Earth, thus closing the field lines and trapping the plasma within.

Spinning is your pup's way of lining up with the Earth's magnetic field.

Claire Watkins deconstructs nature with another science experiment, in which needles appear to line up in an unexplained magnetic field.

The lone active region visible on the sun put on a fine display with its tangled magnetic field lines swaying and twisting above it (Apr.24 - 26, 2018) when viewed in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light.

As rocks capable of being magnetized are cooled or otherwise lithified, their component crystals (grains) are lined up with the Earth's magnetic field.

Samsung's patent FIG. 3 illustrates a transmitter and a receiver operating under the linear polarization mode; FIG. 4 depicts how the linearly polarized magnetic field oscillates with time on a straight line but at different orientations depending on the location in the space around the resonator.