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HANOVER, N.H. – April 28, 2022 – When magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, they create explosions that can release massive amounts of energy. On the sun, the merging of opposing field ...

Scientists in a rare discovery have found “smiling electrons” inside Earth’s protective magnetic field. According to a new ...

Before two dead stars slam together in one of the universe’s most violent events, their magnetic fields erupt in a storm so intense it can light up space long before the crash. Using a powerful ...

Plasma physicists have made an unprecedented measurement in their study of the Earth’s magnetic field. Thanks to ESA’s Cluster satellites they detected an electric field thought to be a key element in ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the direction of Prof. WANG Rongsheng and Prof. LU Quanming, used data from the ...

In June 2021, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew close to Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, observing evidence of magnetic reconnection. A team has used Juno data to examine the electron and ion particles ...

For the new concept thruster, the magnetic fields do the accelerating. So far, computer simulations by PPPL computers and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at the Lawrence ...

Making connections: illustration of gamma-ray flickers being created by magnetic reconnection in a turbulent region in the jet of the blazar 3C 279. (Courtesy: Amit Shukla/Indian Institute of ...

Researchers have recently discovered a breakthrough in magnetic reconnection that could ultimately help predict space weather. A West Virginia University postdoctoral researcher in the Department of ...