Although Voyager probes left our solar system years ago, as they traveled through international space, they are still searching for cosmic rays exploding 23 billion kilometers (14 billion miles) away from our sun. A detailed analysis of recent data from both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 has now led to …
Read More »Physicists observe trippy ‘vortex rings’ in magnetic material for the first time
You can also find vortex rings wherever you have liquids. Now, scientists have found the art of the vortex interesting somewhere – inside a small column made of magnetic material, the gadolinium-cobalt intermetallic compound GDCO2. If you’ve seen smoke rings, or bubble rings under water, you’ve seen vortex rings: a …
Read More »Graphene reveals a super-rare form of magnetism when 3 layers occur simultaneously
Something that largely exists in just two dimensions, graphene seems everywhere. The super-thin ‘wonder material’ is famous not only for its incredible strength, but also for its unique, often surprising combination in thermal and electromagnetic properties. In recent times, graphene research has led to many bizarre experimental discoveries when scientists …
Read More »New high-rise images of the sun show how creepy sunspots look in closeup
One of the world’s most powerful solar observatories has recently completed a major upgrade. And now, the Gregor Solar Telescope in Spain has taken some extremely high-resolution images of our sun obtained in Europe. In the new images upgraded by the telescope, between rowing activity on the surface of the …
Read More »NASA is following an enormous, growing anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field
NASA is actively monitoring an early anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field: a gigantic region with lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, which extends between South America and southwest Africa. This large, evolving phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and troubled scientists for years, and …
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