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galactic magnetic field
A weak and largely disordered magnetic field, with a strength of about 5 × 10-10 tesla, that pervades the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy and controls the alignment of interstellar dust particles. Similar fields exist in other disk galaxies; those of elliptical galaxies are more difficult to estimate because of the lack of interstellar matter.
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