magnetic fields
How a Faint Magnetic Pulse May Have Jumpstarted Evolution 600 Million Years Ago
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Research suggests that the unusual state of Earth’s magnetic field during the Ediacaran Period could have significantly influenced the development of complex ...
Oldest Undisputed Evidence of Earth’s Magnetic Field Uncovered in Greenland
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An example of the 3.7 billion year old banded iron formation that is found in the northeastern part of the Isua Supracrustal ...
One of the universe’s most ‘extreme’ dead stars just sprang back to life unexpectedly
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The universe’s most extreme stars just got a little bit more unexpected and mysterious. Scientists were astounded when they witnessed a “dead” ...
Achoo! Baby star ‘sneezes’ tell astronomers a lot about their development
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Every new parent knows the cold anxiety that grips them when their baby sneezes for the first time. That’s when a litany ...
New image reveals “twisted” magnetic fields around our black hole
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Astronomers have discovered powerful “twisted” magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way, the ...
Scientists reveal never-before-seen map of the Milky Way’s central engine (image)
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The Milky Way is our home galaxy, but how well do we actually know it? As part of a NASA-funded project, a ...
‘Bones’ of cosmic hand revealed in creepy NASA X-ray telescope views (video, photo)
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NASA’s newest X-ray space telescope has captured a ghostly view of a stellar explosion whose remains resemble a skeleton hand in deep ...
NASA missions spy a ghostly hand and creepy face in the cosmos
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Chinese scientists’ new map of the Milky Way turns the tables on cosmic radiation theories
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Kazumasa Kawata, of the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Cosmic Ray Research in Kashiwa, Japan, said the findings would “give new insight ...
