From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:37:58 PST
Magnetism shapes beauty in the heavens
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=9718
"Using a technique based on the work of the 1902 Nobel Prizewinner, Pieter Zeeman, an international team of
astronomers have, for the first time, provided conclusive proof that the magnetic field close to a number of aging
stars is 10 to 100 times stronger than that of our own Sun. "
-- Glasgow astronomers explain hot star disks
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=9717
"Astronomers have been puzzled for decades as to how the rings of hot gas surrounding certain types of star
are formed. Now a team of scientists from the Universities of Glasgow and Wisconsin believe they have found
the answer. The team studied a type of young, hot star, known as a "Be star", that has a disk of glowing gas
around it, similar to the rings surrounding Saturn. Until now, no one has been able to account for how these
rings form but in a paper published this month*, the team suggest an answer."
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