Magnetic Slinky in Space (12 Jan 2005 Universe Today News Item) |
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This is the strongest evidence I've seen for a cosmic Birkeland current.
Although the authors write "The findings provide the first evidence of the magnetic field structure around a filamentary-shaped interstellar cloud", evidence has been provided before, see:
Strange that there is no mention of electric currents, that must be present in the plasma in the "gas" cloud.
Regards,
Ian Tresman