Could this Eagle Nebula image by the Hubble Space Telescope be an illustration of a cosmic magnetic pinch and resultant dusty plasma surrounded by a hydrogen-helium environment?
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Essential Guide to the EU – Chapter 6
Currents, Filaments and Pinches
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- chapter 1 – distances in space
- chapter 2 – magnetic and electric fields in space
- chapter 3 – plasma
- chapter 4 – electromagnetism
- chapter 5 – plasma sheaths, cells and current-free double-Layers
- chapter 6 – currents, filaments and pinches
- chapter 7 – birkeland currents, magnetic ropes and current-carrying double-layers
- chapter 8 – current sheets, perpendicular currents and electric circuits
- chapter 9 – plasma circuit instabilities
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- chapter 11 – radiation
- appendix 1 – vector algebra
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