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Thin Current Sheets in Space: Where the Action Is

Posted August 01, 2012 10:43 AM

From Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories:

Much of the exciting action is space is confined to thin boundaries. The Universe is filled with plasma, a charged gas consisting of ions and electrons. Thin sheets with currents separate large plasma regions in space. Scientists at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) have now finally measured the fundamental properties of one of the waves mixing and accelerating plasmas within these sheets.

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