Lightbound

Carry hope,
go beyond.

From a black hole to Earth’s radiation beltsA black hole’s ring of light shrinks into the aurora above Earth’s pole. Earth’s magnetic field lines loop from pole to pole, holding an inner belt of protons and an outer belt of electrons with a slot between them. Particles bounce along the lines. A sketch, not to scale in time or brightness.INNER · PROTONSOUTER · ELECTRONSSLOTAURORA

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    A black hole bends light into a ring.

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    Earth’s magnetic field bends charged particles.

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    It traps them in two belts: mostly protons close in, energetic electrons further out.

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    Where the outer lines meet the air, they light the aurora.

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    Satellites fly through all of it.

    Gauss tells their teams which data to trust.

A sketch of a dipole field, not a model. Belts after NASA Earth Observatory.

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Earth’s magnetic shield, live.

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