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  Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 15:02 -0500
    Re: Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-22 20:24 +0000

#527494 — Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets

Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets
> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-astronomers-peer-stars-giant-magnets.html


> Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the
> mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly
> magnetized.
>
> Using a technique called asteroseismology, the scientists were able
> to calculate the magnetic field strengths in the fusion-powered
> hearts of dozens of red giants, stars that are evolved versions of
> our sun.
>
> "In the same way medical ultrasound uses sound waves to image the
> interior of the human body, asteroseismology uses sound waves
> generated by turbulence on the surface of stars to probe their inner
> properties," says Caltech postdoctoral researcher Jim Fuller, who
> co-led a new study detailing the research.
>
> The findings, published in the October 23 issue of Science, will help
> astronomers better understand the life and death of stars. Magnetic
> fields likely determine the interior rotation rates of stars; such
> rates have dramatic effects on how the stars evolve.
>
> Until now, astronomers have been able to study the magnetic fields of
> stars only on their surfaces, and have had to use supercomputer
> models to simulate the fields near the cores, where the
> nuclear-fusion process takes place. "We still don't know what the
> center of our own sun looks like," Fuller says.

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets

Were these "giant magnets" painted red, spamming shit head?

Have you ever wondered what your life might have been like if you had
the competence to do more than just copy the words of others, spamming
piece of shit?


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Jim Pennino

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