September 11, 2003

A Lump of Cheese

Thanks for Helena Montana at Demogogue for the pointer to this Nature article that explains that it is the sun not the moon that is cheesy:

"If strings of magnetic field get tangled around each other, the Sun becomes like a spinning lump of molten mozzarella," explains Tom McLeish of the University of Leeds, UK.

Posted by Steve on September 11, 2003
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