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van gogh's ocean

The interaction between shocks and turbulence can amplify the magnetic fields by compressing and/or stretching, which may help to explain the existence of magnetic fields in interstellar medium and outskirts of intracluster medium. This picture, exhibiting the magnetic field in the shocked region of interstellar medium due to supernovae explosion, is produced from a high-resolution MHD simulation and then converted into vectorized format. The magnetic field magnitude and field lines (line integral convolution) are presented by the color and the black filaments respectively.