Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 13:49
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ours were just as strong as those existing today, prompting a rethinking of how our galaxy and others may have formed.