..., such as surface liquid water, solar distance and history, planet mass and size, and possibly planetary magnetic field, can greatly alter the fate of a terrestrial planet. The extrasolar planetary systems harbouring terrestrial planets that...
..., and public health. Radiation Radiation is a major challenge for human space travel. Away from Earth’s protective magnetic field, two key types of radiation are of concern: solar particle events (SPE), which largely consist of low-energy...
...that powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter's magnetic field, accelerate electrons toward the Jovian atmosphere at energies... like Earth, and distant astrophysical systems where magnetic fields hold sway, such as early-stage star forming...
... been emitted from the Sun. The particles and the electric and magnetic fields that guide their motion, coupled with Earth’s own magnetic field all combine to influence one another constantly, and when merged with solar...
...into a photon (packets of light) when they pass through a magnetic field. The reverse might also be true in that photons may also...200 million light-years away. "Galaxy clusters contain magnetic fields over giant distances, and they also often contain ...
...charged particles flowing from the Sun) with a planet’s magnetic field. However auroras are not the only light phenomena to ...radiation with molecules in the upper atmosphere – not with a magnetic field – and occur between about 80 and 120 km over ...