magnetic fields

How Do Planets Form? Semarkona Meteorite Shows Some Clues

It may seem all but impossible to determine how the Solar System formed, given that it happened roughly 4.5 billion…

10 years ago

Detecting the Magnetic Fields of Exoplanets May Help Determine Habitability

Astronomers may soon be able to observe the shockwaves between the magnetic fields of exoplanets and the flow of particles…

11 years ago

The Milky Way’s Magnetic Personality

[/caption] Recently we took a look at a very unusual type of map - the Faraday Sky. Now an international…

13 years ago

Mapping The Milky Way’s Magnetic Fields – The Faraday Sky

[/caption] Kudos to the scientists at the Max Planck Institut and an international team of radio astronomers for an incredibly…

13 years ago

Astronomy Without A Telescope – Cosmic Magnetic Fields

[/caption] The mention of cosmic-scale magnetic fields is still likely to met with an uncomfortable silence in some astronomical circles…

14 years ago

A New Class for Tau Scorpii

Many classes of stars are named for an early, distinguished member of a certain type of stars. For example, Cepheid…

14 years ago

Magnetic Fields in Inter-cluster Space: Measured at Last

[/caption] The strength of the magnetic fields here on Earth, on the Sun, in inter-planetary space, on stars in our…

15 years ago