Simulations may explain why Uranus and Neptune have such tilted magnetic fields
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A study in Communications Physics led by the University of Texas at Austin, with UCLA, Imperial College London and Northumbria University, ties the ice giants’ warped, strongly tilted fields—first seen by Voyager 2 in the 1980s—to how materials conduct electricity under extreme deep conditions. The models suggest their magnetic poles could shift by tens of degrees within just a few decades, much faster than Earth’s field changes.
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