White Dwarf Pulsar Spinning 300 Times Faster Than Earth Reveals New Details About Stars’ Evolution

Medicine & Technology Jun 21, 2023

A fast spinning white dwarf pulsar could shed lights about the evolution of stars. Continue reading to learn more.

Moon Used To Share Magnetic Field With Earth, Protecting Our Atmosphere

Oct 19, 2020

Earth's magnetic field causes the beautifully colored aurorae in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Uranus, a Weird Planet, Has a Weird Magnetic Field

Jun 29, 2017

The way the planet dances with the solar wind makes it even stranger.

NASA’s New MMS Study Revealed Dance Of The Electrons In Earth’s Magnetosphere

May 20, 2017

Every Astrophysical object like Earth has a region of space surrounded by charged particles controlled by its magnetic field, called Magnetosphere. When the incoming charged-particle (Electrons) from solar wind creates disturbance in Earth’s magnetosphere and then it produced Aurora.

Scientists Discovered Source That Speeds Up Magnetic Reconnection

Apr 03, 2017

Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Germany's Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics have discovered a source of the speed-up in a common form of reconnection.

Can Magnetism Bend Heat And Sound? Study Reveals A New Dimension to Magnetic Fields

Mar 23, 2015

For many years researchers have sought to discover just how many uses magnetic fields can have. To date they have become essential in quantum computing, they are vital in medical imaging, and astronomers have even used natural magnetism to amplify the signals of light from far off supernovae and galaxies so that we here on Earth can see them hundreds or thousands of light-years away. But in a new study from researchers at Ohio State University, nanotechnologists have revealed that magnetic fields can impact our lives in far more real ways—controlling heat and sound waves that exhibit magnetic properties of their own.

New NASA Maps Reveal Secrets of Mercury

Mar 18, 2015

The planet closest to the sun has continued to be shrouded in mystery for many years. Now, NASA has unveiled never before seen formations on the surface with two maps created from data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft that has been orbiting the planet since 2004.

Researchers Reveal Method for Magnetic Field Calculation of Exoplanets

Nov 22, 2014

Knowing the level of a planet’s magnetic field can be an important fact to know in the study of how they interact. But studying the fields of an exoplanet, outside of our solar system and orbiting a foreign star, can be a difficult task that researchers have not yet been able to achieve. Though in nearly two decades of looking past our solar system to investigate exoplanets, researchers have developed several methods to estimate magnetic fields at quite a distance.

Earth's Rapidly Shifting Magnetic Field Could Impact Your Health

Oct 22, 2014

Scientists are now claiming that Earth's magnetic field could potentially reverse itself in a shorter time frame than ever before thought possible. It has long been thought that our magnetic field flips every 450,000 years, however, a recent study has been published, which concludes that the most recent flip only took 100 years.