Chaotically magnetized cloud is no place to build a star, or is it?
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 10:52
in Astronomy & Space
For decades, scientists thought that the magnetic field lines coursing around newly forming stars were both powerful and unyielding, working like jail bars to corral star-forming material. More recently, astronomers have found tantalizing evidence that large-scale turbulence far from a nascent star can drag magnetic fields around at will.