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Ordinary magnets can attract only ferrous objects (correct if i am wrong), but celestial bodies attract almost anything (including light). Are these different types of magnetism?

Brandon Enright
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James Poulose
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    Celestial bodies attract things due to gravity not magnetism – John Rennie Aug 06 '14 at 05:06
  • See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferromagnetism. Magnets can also attract nickel and cobalt. – jinawee Aug 06 '14 at 08:48
  • Magnetism can affect most anything. You can, for example, levitate frogs (the author of this experiment earned an igNoble, though) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation#Direct_diamagnetic_levitation - regular magnets, though, will only affect in any measurable ways some kinds of metals. – Thermo's Second Law Aug 06 '14 at 19:19
  • Echoing @Renan's comment, see http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/23523/2451 Related: http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/15366/2451 – Qmechanic Aug 06 '14 at 21:57
  • From the downvotes, i assume that this was a very stupid question. I am not a physics graduate and couldn't find anyone to answer this around. For newbies like me a one liner (like what @bretsky gave) is enough. Sorry for the trouble. – James Poulose Aug 07 '14 at 15:25

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Magnetism and gravity are very different things. Gravity is not a form of magnetism, nor is magnetism a form of gravity. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetism

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