A combination of standard and new observational techniques has been used to detect the magnetic field of a molecular cloud — a region of the interstellar medium that collapses during star ...

Frederick R. Chromey, David A. Hasselbacher, The Flat Sky: Calibration and Background Uniformity in Wide-Field Astronomical Images, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 108, ...

Because mid-Atlantic latitudes have field lines inclined 45 degrees to the horizontal, NASA said, "the violet clouds stretch out in a slanted orientation and look more like short trails than a cloud." ...