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A new study has shown how magnetic fields can also cause turbulences within "dead zones," thus making an important contribution to our current understanding of just how compact objects form in the cosmos.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2013, 11:30
Scientists have discovered that a curious dead star has been hiding one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe all along.
Last Updated: Sunday, July 28, 2013, 13:56
Short gamma-ray bursts as observed with satellites like XMM Newton, Fermi or Swift release within a second the same amount of energy as our galaxy in one year.
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An international team of scientists pooled their radio observations into a database to produce the highest precision map to date of the magnetic field within our own Milky Way galaxy.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 1, 2011, 12:59
Magnetic pole reversal is a common phenomenon, which occurs on Earth, gradually over the millennia.
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