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30 relations: Aurora, Banknotes of the Norwegian krone, Birkeland, Bostrom, Electrojet, FAC, Filament, Flux tube, Gravity, Hannes Alfvén, Heliospheric current sheet, Helium, Hydrogen, Index of physics articles (B), June 1917, Kristian Birkeland, List of plasma physicists, List of plasma physics articles, Magnetosphere of Jupiter, Magnetosphere particle motion, Magnetospheric electric convection field, Naoshi Fukushima, Orders of magnitude (current), Per Carlqvist, Pinch (plasma physics), Plasma (physics), Plasma cosmology, Scientific phenomena named after people, Super Dual Auroral Radar Network, THEMIS.
Aurora
An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), sometimes referred to as polar lights, northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in the high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
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Banknotes of the Norwegian krone
Norwegian banknotes are circulated, in addition to Norwegian coins, with a denomination of Norwegian kroner, as standard units of currency in Norway.
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Birkeland
Birkeland may refer to.
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Bostrom
Bostrom or Boström or Bostrem may refer to.
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Electrojet
An electrojet is an electric current which travels around the E region of the Earth's ionosphere.
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FAC
FAC may refer to.
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Filament
The word filament, which is descended from Latin filum meaning "thread", is used in English for a variety of thread-like structures, including.
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Flux tube
A flux tube is a generally tube-like (cylindrical) region of space containing a magnetic field, B, such that the field is perpendicular to the normal vector, \hat.
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Gravity
Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.
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Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).
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Heliospheric current sheet
The heliospheric current sheet is the surface within the Solar System where the polarity of the Sun's magnetic field changes from north to south.
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Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element with symbol He and atomic number 2.
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element with symbol H and atomic number 1.
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Index of physics articles (B)
The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.
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June 1917
The following events occurred in June 1917.
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Kristian Birkeland
Kristian Olaf Bernhard Birkeland (13 December 1867 – 15 June 1917) was a Norwegian scientist.
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List of plasma physicists
*Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov.
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List of plasma physics articles
This is a list of plasma physics topics.
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Magnetosphere of Jupiter
The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the cavity created in the solar wind by the planet's magnetic field.
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Magnetosphere particle motion
The ions and electrons of a plasma interacting with the Earth's magnetic field generally follow its magnetic field lines.
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Magnetospheric electric convection field
The impact of the solar wind onto the magnetosphere generates an electric field within the inner magnetosphere (r the Earth's radius) - the convection field-.
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Naoshi Fukushima
was a Japanese physicist specializing in the near-Earth space environment.
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Orders of magnitude (current)
To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various ampere levels.
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Per Carlqvist
Per Carlqvist (born July 25, 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish plasma physicist with an interest in astrophysical applications.
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Pinch (plasma physics)
A pinch is the compression of an electrically conducting filament by magnetic forces.
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Plasma (physics)
Plasma (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon, on Perseus) is one of the four fundamental states of matter, and was first described by chemist Irving Langmuir in the 1920s.
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Plasma cosmology
Plasma cosmology is a non-standard cosmology whose central postulate is that the dynamics of ionized gases and plasmas play important, if not dominant, roles in the physics of the universe beyond the Solar System.
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Scientific phenomena named after people
This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena).
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Super Dual Auroral Radar Network
The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) is an international scientific radar network consisting of 35 high frequency (HF) radars located in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
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THEMIS
The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission began in February 2007 as a constellation of five NASA satellites (THEMIS A through THEMIS E) to study energy releases from Earth's magnetosphere known as substorms, magnetic phenomena that intensify auroras near Earth's poles.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland_current
