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When they analyzed the resulting readings, Kemp and Swedlund could scarcely believe their eyes. The figures indicated that the strength of the white dwarf's magnetic field was somewhere between 10 million and 30 million gauss (v. only about one-half gauss for the earth's and 100,000 gauss for the strongest fields detected around ordinary stars). Indeed, if a spaceship ever came within 1,000,000 miles of the star, it would be hopelessly stalled by its magnetic field. Still unconvinced, Kemp and Swedlund considered other factors-stray molecules in interstellar space, for example -that might...
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