Cosmic forensic experts are reconstructing the magnetic field around an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around it. How do you dust a star for fingerprints? It's certainly ...

However, during the pandemic, traditional field studies became impossible. So, we adopted a new approach. Using satellites, ...

The white bars show the directions of the magnetic field revealed by the orientation of the dust grains. The strength of the magnetic field is 0.3 milligauss. For comparison, a typical ...