Tag: magnetic fields
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GO-LoW: The Solar System’s Hidden Radio Frontier Comes Into View
A New Frontier: Listening to the Low-Frequency Sky For centuries, humanity has studied the cosmos across the electromagnetic spectrum. Yet a wide, relatively uncharted swath remains—the low-frequency radio sky, with wavelengths from 15 meters to kilometers. MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT Haystack Observatory, and Lowell Observatory are spearheading a NASA-funded concept study known as the Great…
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Rocky Giants: New Findings Reframe Uranus and Neptune Interiors
New Research Challenges the Classic ‘Ice Giants’ Label For decades, Uranus and Neptune have been classified as the Solar System’s “ice giants.” The name implied interiors dominated by water, ammonia, and other ices that solidify under extreme cold. But a bold new approach is turning this idea on its head. In a pre‑print study accepted…
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Gravity’s Tug-of-War: How Gravity Reorients Magnetic Fields in Star Clusters
Overview: A cosmic tug-of-war in star-forming clouds In the largest and most detailed survey to date, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured new evidence about how gravity and magnetic fields shape the birth of massive stars. Focusing on regions where gas and dust densify to form protostars, researchers mapped the magnetic…
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Rogue Planet SA 1107-7626: A World Devouring the Cosmos
Introduction: A Rogue World with an Insatiable Appetite In a scenario that has captivated space enthusiasts and scientists alike, a young planet named SA 1107-7626 is described as growing at an astonishing rate while roaming the galaxy without a host star. First identified in 2008, this rogue planet challenges the textbook image of planetary birth…
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SA 1107-7626: The Dust-Eating Lone Planet That Defies Star-Ceded Growth
Introduction: A rogue planet that eats dust In the annals of space discovery, some objects fit neatly into established categories, while others challenge them. Since its first identification, the young planet SA 1107-7626 has stood apart. Unlike a typical planet that compounds its mass by circling a star, this lone world drifts in interstellar space,…
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Rogue Planet Growth: Explosive Accretion in Space
The extraordinary finding A free-floating, or rogue, planet named Cha 1107-7626 is undergoing an immense growth spurt, pulling in gas and dust from its surrounding disk at roughly six billion metric tons per second. Scientists say this is the highest accretion rate ever measured for a planetary-mass object. The discovery, published in The Astrophysical Journal…
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Rogue Planet Accretion Surges Explosively in Space
An international team of astronomers has documented an explosive growth phase in a rogue planet, Cha 1107-7626, a world that wanders interstellar space, unbound to any star. The object is accumulating gas and dust from a surrounding disk at a rate of six billion tonnes per second, the highest accretion rate ever recorded for an…