Sunspots and solar flares, created by the sun’s magnetism, can affect the Earth’s surface
The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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The sun's poles may have powerful magnetic tornadoes
A diagram showing a green sun (due to a filter) and red and blue alternating splotches at the sun's north pole. "These ...
Magnetic displacement experiment challenges long-held theories on how migratory birds navigate
Migratory birds are known for their ability to traverse thousands of kilometers to reach their breeding or wintering grounds.
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NASA-Funded Study May Have Finally Solved ‘A Mystery at the Sun’s Poles’
New research funded by NASA into the potential formation of solar vortices may finally solve the mystery at the sun's poles.
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Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS
Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...
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Swirling Vortices Might Exist On The North And South Pole Of The Sun
There is a lot that we do not know about the Sun but something quite shocking to most people is that we have never seen its ...
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How Geometry Revealed Quantum Memory
Berry used mathematical means to investigate what would happen to the neutron if the direction of the magnetic field changed slowly. According to the so-called adiabatic theorem, which was introduced ...
Could Mars have been habitable longer? Magnetic field study says yes
A new Harvard study suggests that Mars’ protective magnetic field may have lasted hundreds of millions of years longer than ...
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Polar Vortices Likely Found on Sun
Like the Earth, the Sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for ...
Unveiling the Sun’s Secret Twisters: Magnetic Vortices at the Poles
Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...