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The Mechanism That Generates Huge White Dwarf Magnetic Fields Discovered

A dynamo mechanism could explain the incredibly strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars according to an international team of scientists, including a University of Warwick astronomer. One of the most striking phenomena in astrophysics is the presence of magnetic fields. Like the Earth, stars and stellar remnants such as white dwarfs have one. It ...

Troy Oakes

A white dwarf.