Magnetic fields play key role in star formation. Max Planck Institute.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111116132119.htm


ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2011) — Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have, for the first time, measured the alignment of magnetic fields in gigantic clouds of gas and dust in a distant galaxy. Their results suggest that such magnetic fields play a key role in channeling matter to form denser clouds, and thus in setting the stage for the birth of new stars.

The work is being published in the journal Nature.

Stars and their planets are born when giant clouds of interstellar gas and dust collapse. You've probably seen the resulting stellar nurseries in beautiful astronomical images: Colorful nebulae, lit by the bright young stars they have brought forth.

Astronomers know quite a bit about these so-called molecular clouds: They consist mainly of hydrogen molecules -- unusual in a cosmos where conditions are rarely right for hydrogen atoms to bond together into molecules. And if one traces the distribution of clouds in a spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way galaxy, one finds that they are lined up along the spiral arms.

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1. Beautiful science.

But it has absolutely nothing to do with your favorite crackpot theory. Sorry. I know you see "electrical" or "magnetic" in an article and think it MUST support the "electric universe," but it just ain't so.

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2. "He who controls magnetism, controls the world."

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3. There are those who believe that if everyone held their refrigerator

magnets in a certain way, we could flip the poles... others have a hard time with this notion.