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All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the solar wind, high-energy particle transport, and galaxy formation. Small-scale ...

A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, colorful shock wave apparently blasting out from a white dwarf that was ...