The Cygnus Loop has characteristics of an interstellar Birkeland current: (1) A plasma medium (2) Filamentation (3) Braiding, twisted "rope-like" structure. Credit: William P. Blair and Ravi Sankrit (Johns Hopkins University), NASA
The Cygnus Loop has characteristics of an interstellar Birkeland current: (1) A plasma medium (2) Filamentation (3) Braiding, twisted "rope-like" structure. Credit: William P. Blair and Ravi Sankrit (Johns Hopkins University), NASA
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