There’s one snag though; the images are encoded in magnetic flux and thus invisible to the naked eye. Instead, they can be enjoyed through a disk copying program that shows a sector map.

Traditional hard disk drives use the direction of the magnetization of magnetic materials to store binary data. The magnetization can be controlled with magnetic field, light or electrical current ...

A disk's surface is divided into concentric tracks (circles within circles), and the thinner the tracks, the more storage. The data bits are recorded as magnetic spots on the tracks in one ...

Due to its fast spin, close proximity to Earth and the fact that its magnetic pole ... to peer at this disk. The resulting photos provide the clearest-ever image of Vega's dusty disk and show ...