SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged magnetic fields Highly magnetic dead stars might have solid surfaces, but you sure wouldn't want to walk on 'em It would rip you apart before you ever got close. By Cassidy Ward | 1 week ago What creates the aurora on Mars? The same thing that happens on Earth, but on Mars it's a lot weirder. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago Zombie sunspot reanimated out of nowhere and went into full attack mode The undead lurk in space, too. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago Mercury got the ultimate sunburn from solar plasma, and that's how we know it has a magnetic field As if there aren’t enough reasons to wear SPF already, you now have one more. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago Wait. If the Moon has no magnetic field, then what’s the magnetic force on its surface? So maybe that's why lunar ice doesn't melt. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago Spicules make the Sun look like a shag carpet. We’re still figuring out why Faraday excitation and alligator mating calls, baby, yeah! By Phil Plait | 8 months ago Some 200 lasers recreated the heat and magnetism of a monster galaxy, right here on Earth Something about galaxy clusters almost broke the laws of physics. Almost. By Elizabeth Rayne | 8 months ago The Dead Red Planet Part 2: Why did the waters of ancient Mars disappear? Mars' magnetic field shut down, but why? By Phil Plait | 9 months ago Black holes lurk in literal rings of fire If there was an Eye of Sauron in space, it would be a black hole. By Elizabeth Rayne | 9 months ago In 7176 BCE, the Sun erupted in what may be the biggest blast in 10,000 years Immense solar storm occurred over 9,000 years ago that would be devastating today. By Phil Plait | 10 months ago Load More
Highly magnetic dead stars might have solid surfaces, but you sure wouldn't want to walk on 'em It would rip you apart before you ever got close. By Cassidy Ward | 1 week ago
What creates the aurora on Mars? The same thing that happens on Earth, but on Mars it's a lot weirder. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
Zombie sunspot reanimated out of nowhere and went into full attack mode The undead lurk in space, too. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago
Mercury got the ultimate sunburn from solar plasma, and that's how we know it has a magnetic field As if there aren’t enough reasons to wear SPF already, you now have one more. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago
Wait. If the Moon has no magnetic field, then what’s the magnetic force on its surface? So maybe that's why lunar ice doesn't melt. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago
Spicules make the Sun look like a shag carpet. We’re still figuring out why Faraday excitation and alligator mating calls, baby, yeah! By Phil Plait | 8 months ago
Some 200 lasers recreated the heat and magnetism of a monster galaxy, right here on Earth Something about galaxy clusters almost broke the laws of physics. Almost. By Elizabeth Rayne | 8 months ago
The Dead Red Planet Part 2: Why did the waters of ancient Mars disappear? Mars' magnetic field shut down, but why? By Phil Plait | 9 months ago
Black holes lurk in literal rings of fire If there was an Eye of Sauron in space, it would be a black hole. By Elizabeth Rayne | 9 months ago
In 7176 BCE, the Sun erupted in what may be the biggest blast in 10,000 years Immense solar storm occurred over 9,000 years ago that would be devastating today. By Phil Plait | 10 months ago
