How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought to be forming. The team was able to use dust to measure the ...

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The team was able to use this dust to reconstruct a 3D "fingerprint" of the magnetic field structure around the star HD 142527, located around 512 light-years away in the direction of the ...