It goes to 11: Florida lab sets new magnet strength record
Engineers at a lab in Florida have been working quietly for the last two and a half years on building one of the most powerful magnets in the world.
General Physics
Aug 22, 2017
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News tagged with magnetic field strength
The remarkable jet of the quasar 4C+19.44
Quasars are galaxies with massive black holes at their cores. So much energy is being radiated from near the nucleus of a quasar that it is much brighter than the rest of the entire galaxy. Much of that radiation is at radio ...
Astronomy
Oct 16, 2017
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Magma ocean may be responsible for the moon's early magnetic field
Around four billion years ago, the Moon had a magnetic field that was about as strong as Earth's magnetic field is today. How the Moon, with a much smaller core than Earth's, could have had such a strong magnetic field has ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2018
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Magnetic fields help in formation of massive stars
Magnetic fields in massive dark clouds are strong enough to support the regions against collapse due to their own gravity. A study lead by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn has now shown ...
Astronomy
Jan 21, 2015
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National MagLab racks up new world record with hybrid magnet
After a decade of planning, designing and building, the Florida State University-based National High Magnetic Field Laboratory now has the strongest magnet in the world for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a ...
General Physics
Nov 10, 2016
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Scientists develop a new way to remotely measure Earth's magnetic field
Researchers in Canada, the United States and Europe have developed a new way to remotely measure Earth's magnetic field—by zapping a layer of sodium atoms floating 100 kilometres above the planet with lasers on the ground.
Earth Sciences
Oct 4, 2018
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New discovery finds starving white dwarfs are binge eaters
University of Canterbury astrophysicist Dr Simone Scaringi has made an unexpected and exciting new discovery related to the way white dwarfs grow in space.
Astronomy
Dec 14, 2017
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Study investigates magnetic field of an extremely ultraluminous X-ray pulsar
Using NASA's Swift spacecraft and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have observed NGC 5907 ULX1—the most luminous ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar known to date. Results of the observational campaign, published February ...
Voyager observes magnetic field fluctuations in heliosheath
As they near the outer reaches of the solar system, for the past several years the two Voyager spacecraft have been sending back observations that challenge scientists' views of the physics at the edge of the heliosphere, ...
Space Exploration
Oct 29, 2012
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Image: Supercomputer simulation of magnetic field loops on the Sun
Magnetic fields emerging from below the surface of the sun influence the solar wind—a stream of particles that blows continuously from the sun's atmosphere through the solar system. Researchers at NASA and its university ...
Space Exploration
Nov 26, 2014
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