Detailed map of current flow patterns in the whirlpool galaxy

[Michael Mozina]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/magnetic-c ... ool-galaxy

Aside from the fact that NASA continues to try to dumb down *electromagnetism* to "magnetism", I found this high resolution image of the magnetic field patterns of the Whirlpool galaxy to be quite interesting. They show that galaxies have a somewhat messy and rather chaotic current flow pattern.

[Solar]

SOFIA has been upgraded with new device:

SOFIA’s newest instrument, the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-Plus, or HAWC+, uses far-infrared light to observe celestial dust grains, which align along magnetic field lines. From these results, astronomers can infer the shape and direction of the otherwise invisible magnetic field. Far-infrared light provides key information about magnetic fields because the signal is clean and not contaminated by emission from other physical mechanisms, such as scattered visible light. - Weighing Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies

Cigar Galaxy (also called M82)

Magnetic ‘Highway’ Channels Material Out of Cigar Galaxy

"... the wind drags the magnetic field..." What does that mean?

[Michael Mozina]

SOFIA has been upgraded with new device:

SOFIA’s newest instrument, the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-Plus, or HAWC+, uses far-infrared light to observe celestial dust grains, which align along magnetic field lines. From these results, astronomers can infer the shape and direction of the otherwise invisible magnetic field. Far-infrared light provides key information about magnetic fields because the signal is clean and not contaminated by emission from other physical mechanisms, such as scattered visible light. - Weighing Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies

Cigar Galaxy (also called M82)

Magnetic ‘Highway’ Channels Material Out of Cigar Galaxy

"... the wind drags the magnetic field..." What does that mean?

Their so called "magnetic highway" is the *unscientific* term for a "Birkeland current". The *current*(wind) generates(drags) the magnetic field. That's what they *actually* mean, but of course since "Birkeland currents" and electric fields and plasma currents are forbidden terms in mainstream publications, they dumb it all down to magnetism and make up goofy unscientific terms to avoid using the *correct* scientific terms and concepts for what they're observing.

Astronomy today is completely electophobic. As a result, they just make up irrational unscientific terms, and the intentionally or unintentionally misrepresent the actual physics involved. It's not "wind", it's *current*. The current doesn't "drag" the magnetic field, it *creates/generates* the magnetic field. It's not a "magnetic highway,", is a "Birkeland current". That's what they *actually* mean.

If astronomers understood anything at all about plasma physics, they'd use the proper scientific terms to describe these events in space and they'd understand how to apply circuit theory to these sorts of observations. Instead they peddle what Alfven called "pseudoscience' till the day he died, and they try to the misuse his MHD theory to give it an air of mathematical credibility.

[dren]

"... the wind drags the magnetic field..." What does that mean?

It must be a pretty nasty storm that's dragging the Earth's magnetic poles around.