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In space, plasma and magnetic fields are everywhere, so reconnection can occur in all sorts of places.
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They had been looking for the point at which the magnetic field and the plasma switch from a slow, gentle waltz to something like an American square dance.
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The reason stellarators fell out of fashion was that their magnetic fields used to leak plasma faster than those of a tokamak.
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The cloud of plasma carries with it a strong magnetic field.
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More baffling, at least to physicists, is that sometimes a bit of the plasma manages to break through the magnetic barrier and get inside the magnetosphere.
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It will also cause the magnetic bottle to overflow and emit a stream of plasma through a special outlet.
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Dr Ardavan's theory describes how the gyrating star generates an intense magnetic field, which polarises the ionised gas or plasma surrounding it.
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And it needs to carry extra gas, since the plasma would leak out of the end of the magnetic balloon.
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"We think that magnetic activity on or around the stellar surface creates the super-hot plasma, " Hamaguchi said.
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After a few fast turns caused by turbulence in the magnetosphere, one piece of plasma finds itself close to another piece that is dragging along a magnetic field with the opposite orientation.
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